Fresh Windows install with RAID on X399 Taichi

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   Motherboard: 
X399 Taichi

I successfully installed Window 10 a few years ago with two NVMe drives using ASRock's AMD RAID driver ver:9.00.00.088.  Today I tried to upgrade those two drives and install Windows from scratch.  Eight hours later I've given up because while the previous install still works, installing from scratch is completely broken.

Things I tried:

Install using ASRock's RAID drivers using Windows 11 iso Nov 2021

Install using ASRock's RAID drivers, using Windows 10 iso 21H2

Install using AMD's RAID drivers using Windows 11 iso Nov 2021

Install using AMD's RAID drivers, using Windows 10 iso 21H2

Then I repeated those steps with the following BIOS versions:

3.30

3.90

3.92 (beta)

From these tests, I think I can confidently say that the X399 Taichi's NVMe RAID is broken.  While I can still boot my old setup, I cannot recreate that setup today with any other drive on Windows.

ASRock's drivers work as expected when installing AMD-RAID Bottom Device, but crash when installing AMD-RAID Controller.  AMD's drivers don't seem to do anything at all.  From this, I can only assume that ASRock needs to modify the AMD drivers to work on the X399 Taichi.

The last update to ASRock's drivers was over four years ago, PLEASE update them

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ibullard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2022 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 65	Post Options Post Reply Quote ibullard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Fresh Windows install with RAID on X399 Taichi Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 8:23am
	Motherboard: X399 Taichi I successfully installed Window 10 a few years ago with two NVMe drives using ASRock's AMD RAID driver ver:9.00.00.088. Today I tried to upgrade those two drives and install Windows from scratch. Eight hours later I've given up because while the previous install still works, installing from scratch is completely broken. Things I tried: Install using ASRock's RAID drivers using Windows 11 iso Nov 2021 Install using ASRock's RAID drivers, using Windows 10 iso 21H2 Install using AMD's RAID drivers using Windows 11 iso Nov 2021 Install using AMD's RAID drivers, using Windows 10 iso 21H2 Then I repeated those steps with the following BIOS versions: 3.30 3.90 3.92 (beta) From these tests, I think I can confidently say that the X399 Taichi's NVMe RAID is broken. While I can still boot my old setup, I cannot recreate that setup today with any other drive on Windows. ASRock's drivers work as expected when installing AMD-RAID Bottom Device, but crash when installing AMD-RAID Controller. AMD's drivers don't seem to do anything at all. From this, I can only assume that ASRock needs to modify the AMD drivers to work on the X399 Taichi. The last update to ASRock's drivers was over four years ago, PLEASE update them

kerberos_20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Dec 2017 Location: czech republic Status: Offline Points: 3687	Post Options Post Reply Quote kerberos_20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 9:01am
	you have initialised RAID array on new drives? Edited by kerberos_20 - 10 Feb 2022 at 9:01am
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ibullard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2022 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 65	Post Options Post Reply Quote ibullard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 9:11am
	Yes. I verified the BIOS settings for each BIOS install because they reset the settings then verified the RAID array was correctly set up in the RAIDXpert2 BIOS menu. During my first attempt, I even reset the BIOS to the default and then re-set all RAID related NVMe settings, recreated the RAID array in the RAIDXpert2 menu, and tried again.

ibullard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2022 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 65	Post Options Post Reply Quote ibullard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Feb 2022 at 8:27am
	So, are there any actual ASROCK representatives on this forum or is this just a place where they let users complain and never do anything about it?

ibullard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2022 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 65	Post Options Post Reply Quote ibullard Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Feb 2022 at 6:14am
	Bump.

ASRock_TSD Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List ASRock_Official Joined: 20 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 8787	Post Options Post Reply Quote ASRock_TSD Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Mar 2022 at 5:11pm
	Dear ibullard, Thank you for the posting. Please refer to the RAID Installation Guide from below link to create RAID Array and install the SATA Floppy during Windows installation to try. RAID Installation Guide: https://download.asrock.com/Manual/RAID/X399%20Taichi/English.pdf Thank you, Best wishes, ASRock TSD

Csosa3D Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 Jan 2023 Location: Lithia Florida Status: Offline Points: 35	Post Options Post Reply Quote Csosa3D Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 Jan 2023 at 10:32am
	Were you able to get this fixed? I'm running into the same situation where I'm loading the drivers and Windows is seeing my NVME Raid partition but will not allow me to install on the drive. It's saying it's not a bootable drive. Asrock Taichi x399 with 1950x running P3.92.

millennium69 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26 Feb 2023 Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote millennium69 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Feb 2023 at 6:10pm
	I can confirm the same. Fresh install is not seeing the raid but the drives are showing up separately.

millennium69 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26 Feb 2023 Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote millennium69 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Feb 2023 at 6:11pm
	These docs are not for this motherboard. Please advise.

millennium69 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26 Feb 2023 Status: Offline Points: 60	Post Options Post Reply Quote millennium69 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Feb 2023 at 8:58pm
	Spent two days on this. During the course of trying different things I had to flash the BIOS using the flashback button and port to 3.20. I then used the AMD raid 930_00296 drivers during the Windows hard drive setup screen. I had to load the \WIN10\x64\NVMe_CC\rcbottom and the \WIN10\x64\NVMe_CC\rcraid drivers for the drives to show up in the raid config. Upgrading the BIOS to 3.92 which is the latest as of this post worked, you just have to re-enable raid in the BIOS again.