X370 Fatal1ty Pro - Unable to Create Large RAID0

This is what my Device Manager currently looks like.

visualsoul wrote: This is what my Device Manager currently looks like.

That looks good to me, the Storage controllers entries are right.

RAIDXpert2 takes some getting used to, compared to Intel's RAID, but it seems to be more sophisticated in some ways, but at the cost of complexity.



The ASRock Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming download page has a new version of the AMD RAID driver and RAIDXpert2, despite the dates on ASRock's and AMD's website. I have NOT tried them yet.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20X399%20Professional%20Gaming/index.asp#osW1064

You can run RAIDXpert2 safely and just check it out. If you move the mouse pointer over the Help button at the top right, you can open the User Guide. Your browser should give you an option to save the document, which I think is a good idea.

The Table of Contents is 11 pages by itself, of a 133 page document. Yes, a lot there but we don't need to read it all. I would advise looking at some of it just to understand the terminology and how it works. For example, in the Active Volumes section, a Device of type Legacy is a standard, non-RAID drive that cannot be used (yet) in a RAID array. Any drive or partition to become part of a RAID array must be Initialized first, which you probably know.

Whatever you do, do NOT connect an Intel IRST RAID array to your Ryzen PC. The AMD RAID driver and software will try to make sense of it, but it is not compatible, and the result will be a huge mess in RAIDXpert2. It won't ruin your AMD RAID arrays, but you'll have some cleaning up to do after you remove the Intel RAID array disks. RAIDXpert2 remembers the arrays it thinks it detected, waiting for them to be fixed, etc.

For best results with drives used in the past, use Disk Management on another PC to delete all the partitions, or the Diskpart clean command, before connecting them to an AMD RAID enabled PC.

wardog wrote: wardog wrote: Well........Finally. Here goes nothing. Going to do a fresh install on a spare SSD using the F6 SATA Floppy Image. Yea. There goes nothing. I'm semi-down till I figure out what I killed in Windows lastight. Got the 3TB drives RAIDed, decided to update my BIOS to 3.20 and play with mem for a few, got it to boot albeit very unstable @ 3600, 3600!!!!!!, and wham. Windows 10 Pro is hosed. I'll fiddle some more then I'll reinstall, or try a Repair

So you upgraded your BIOS to 3.20?  What board are you using?

visualsoul wrote: So you upgraded your BIOS to 3.20?  What board are you using?

You weren't asking me, but I am now using 3.20 in an X370 Killer SLI/ac, which wardog also uses.

I think 3.20 is fine, the additional options for Smart Fan control in HW Monitoring are worth checking.