ASRock 990FX Extreme6 RAID Installation Guide
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- ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
AMD RAID Installation Guide 1. AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide 2 1.1 Introduction to RAID 2 1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 3 1.3 Installing Windows® 8 / Windows RAID Installation Guide 15 2.1 Components of RAIDXpert Installation Software 15 2.2 Browser Support 15 2.3 Installing - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 2
by using the onboard FastBuild BIOS utility under BIOS environment. After you make a SATA3 driver diskette, press or to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support CD or "Quick Installation Guide", then you can - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 3
RAID 5 (Block Striping with Distributed Parity) RAID 5 stripes data and distributes parity information across the physical drives along with the data blocks. This organization increases performance by accessing multiple physical drives simultaneously for each operation, as well as fault tolerance by - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
1.2 RAID Configurations Precautions 1. Please use two new drives if you are creating a RAID 0 (striping) array for performance. It is recommended to use two SATA drives of the same size. If you use two drives of different sizes, the smaller capacity hard disk will be the base storage size for - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part in this document for details. STEP 3: Make a SATA3 Driver Diskette. (Please use an USB floppy or a floppy disk.) A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. During POST at the beginning of system - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
Way 2: Use this alternative to speed up Windows® 8 boot time. STEP 1: Set up UEFI. A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY → Advanced screen → Storage Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Mode" option to [RAID]. C. Click [F10] to save and exit. D. Click [F11] to enter boot menu and select "Built-in EFI - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 7
H. Enter [Logical Drive Main Menu] to set up RAID Drive. I. Choose [Logical Drive Create Menu] to create a RAID Drive. 7 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 8
J. Choose [Usable Physical Drive List] and select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array. Click [Space] on keyboard to toggle checkbox. Then choose [Basic Setting]. K. Select your desired RAID Level in "Raid Mode" and enter a volume name in "Ld name". Click [Enter] to confirm the - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 9
M. Click [Esc] to return to the previous page and choose [Logical Drive List Menu] to check the logical drive list. N. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY → Boot to set the "Fast Boot" option to [Ultra Fast]. Press [F10] to save change and exit. STEP 2: Install Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit OS on your system. 9 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 10
. Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check this RAID installation guide for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part in this document for details. STEP 3: Make a SATA3 Driver Diskette. (Please use an USB floppy or a floppy disk.) Make a SATA3 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 11
1.4 Create Disk Array Power on your system. If this is the first time you have booted with the disk drives installed, the AMD onboard RAID Option ROM Utility will display the following screen. The RAID Option ROM includes a Utility with tools to set up your physical drives as RAID logical drives. - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 12
Press 2 on the Main Menu screen to display the Define LD Menu. Press the arrow keys to highlight a logical drive number you want to define and press to select it. The Define LD Menu for the logical drive number you selected will next appear. Choose the RAID level you want. In the Define LD - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 13
a new RAID logical drive. Please install the operating system to your computer by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support CD or "Quick Installation Guide". Two Logical Drives After selecting the logical drive in Disk Assignments as the above-mentioned procedures, press - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 14
. 6. Press to restart the computer. You have successfully created a new RAID logical drive. Please install the operating system to your computer by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support CD or "Quick Installation Guide". 14 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 15
designed to work with AMD SB950 SATA RAID controllers. Other brands of RAID controllers are not supported. Please read this guide carefully and follow the instructions below to configure and manage RAID functions. 2.1 Components of RAIDXpert Installation Software RAIDXpert installation software will - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 16
7. When the Welcome screen appears, click the Next button. 8. When the License Agreement screen appears, click the "I accept the terms of the license agreement" option to proceed with installation. Then click the Next button to continue. Note: If you leave the "I do not accept the terms of the - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 17
9. When the Choose Install Folder screen appears, make your selection of a folder for the RAIDXpert applications you are installing. For example, the Windows default folder is: C:\Program Files\AMD\RAIDXpert If you want a different folder, type its location or click the Choose... button and select a - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 18
12. When the Install Complete screen appears, click the Finish button. 2.4 Logging into RAIDXpert Choose RAIDXpert in the Windows Programs menu. Or, log on manually with your browser: 1. Launch the Browser. 2. In the Browser address field, type the entry explained below. If you did not choose the - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 19
• Enter the Host PC's IP address 127.0.0.1 or localhost • Enter the Port number 8443 • Add to launch RAIDXpert amd Together, your entry looks like this: https://127.0.0.1:8443/amd or https://localhost:8443/amd Note that the IP address shown above applies to a log-in at the Host PC. When you log - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 20
4. In the Select Drive Type screen, click the following option: • Free Drives - Select all Free (unassigned) physical drives The Select Drives screen appears. 5. Click the Next button. 6. If you want to split the capacity of your physical drives between two logical drives, enter the capacity for the - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 21
10. Click the Next button. The Final Settings screen appears. 11. RAID 0, 5, and 10. Choose a Stripe Block Size from the dropdown menu. The choices are 64 and 128 KB. The Write Cache policy is None. You cannot change this setting. 12. RAID 0, 1, and 5. Select a Gigabyte Boundary policy from the - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 22
drive, you must partition and format the logical drive using your PC's operating system. 2.8 Connecting to RAIDXpert from the Internet The above instructions cover connections between the Host PC and other PCs using RAIDXpert over your company network. It is also possible to connect to a Host - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 23
3. Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB This motherboard is adopting UEFI BIOS that allows Windows® OS to be installed on a large size HDD (>2TB). Please drive.) You can also press to launch boot menu at system POST and choose the item "UEFI:xxx" to boot. 4. Start Windows® installation. 23 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 24
Mode This motherboard is adopting UEFI BIOS that allows Windows® OS to be installed on a large size HDD (>2TB). Please follow below procedure to install the operating system. 1. Please make sure to use Windows® 7 64-bit or Windows® 8 64-bit. 2. Press or at system POST - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 25
7. And then key in drvcfg -s [Drv number] [Ctrl number] to enter Raid Utility. For example: key in drvcfg -s 4E B5. 8. Choose Logical Drive Main Menu to set up Raid Drive. 9. Choose Logical Drive Create Menu to create a Raid Drive. 10. Choose Usable Physical Drive List to select Raid HDD. 25 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 26
11. Press Space on keyboard to toggle checkbox. 12. Choose Ld Size setting, and key in the Raid size. 13. After set up Raid size, please click Start to Create. 14. Press to exit Utility. 15. During reboot, please press to enter Boot Menu. Choose UEFI: SCSI CD/DVD Drive. 26 - ASRock 990FX Extreme6 | RAID Installation Guide - Page 27
driver/utilities. If you encounter this problem, you will need to following instructions to fix this problem. Windows® 8 64-bit / 7 64-bit: A. Please request the hotfix KB2505454 thru this link: http://support by itself. E. Please start to install motherboard drivers and utilities. 17. Finish. 27
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AMD RAID Installation Guide
1.
AMD BIOS RAID Installation Guide …………………………………………………………………….. 2
1.1
Introduction to RAID ……………………………………………………………………………….. 2
1.2
RAID Configurations Precautions ………………………………………………………………… 3
1.3
Installing Windows
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8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit With RAID Functions .………………….………..5
1.3.1
Installing Windows
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8 / 8 64-bit With RAID Funtions …………………...………………. 5
1.3.2
Installing Windows
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7 / 7 64-bit With RAID Funtions ……………………………..……..10
1.4
Create Disk Array …………………………………………………………………………………. 11
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AMD Windows RAID Installation Guide ………………………………………………………………...15
2.1
Components of RAIDXpert Installation Software ……………………………………………… 15
2.2
Browser Support ………………………………………………………………………………….. 15
2.3
Installing RAIDXpert ……………………………………………………………………………… 15
2.4
Logging into RAIDXpert ………………………………………………………………………….. 18
2.5
Regular Connection……………………………………………………………………………
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2.6
Secure Connection………………………………………………………………………………... 18
2.7
Creating a New Logical Drive
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2.8
Connecting to RAIDXpert from the Internet ……………………………………………………. 22
2.9
Running RAIDXpert without Network Connection …………………………………………….. 22
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Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB …………………………………………………………….. 23
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Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB in RAID Mode……………………………………………. 24