Taichi x399 new bios?

MisterJ wrote: daddyo, Please don't give up, I think I have figured it all out.  If you will tell me what you want to do, I will provide the instructions of how to do it.  Works well for my 3 SSD NVMe RAID0 system disk.  Enjoy, John.

You're a good man, and I truly appreciate your dedication to the community.

In the interest of learning something, I'll tell you what I initially wanted to build.

I have a single SATA SSD which is my current boot drive, and want to keep it as such. I have a PCIE nmve SSD which is a cache drive, which I want to keep as such. I also have 2x10tb SATA disks and 2x2TB SATA SSD's that are currently 4 independent volumes, all under AHCI in my UEFI.

What I wanted to do was have the 2x2TB SSD's as a RAID1 volume, and the 2x10TB drives as another RAID 1 volume, both for data storage, while the single SATA SSD would be the boot drive, and the single PCIE NVME SSD be a cache drive for tasks like video editing (This is my home post production workstation)...

Does that make sense?

I could never get the single boot drive to be recognized under windows setup after my attempts at designating it as a single RAID container in UEFI RAID2.0 mode. So I basically gave up and built the system in AHCI, which worked just fine. I tried just about everything in the UEFI, I never could get it to be a drive Windows would consider as bootable (although it would "see it" in the drive list after loading all the RAID drivers during the pre loading phase). There's nothing wrong with the drive, it's a samsung 950 PRO, pretty standard and proven to work in previous builds. I just couldn't get past installing Windows on it....


Edited by daddyo - 07 Mar 2018 at 8:34am

With the issues I've had trying to get the onboard RAID to work on my x399 taichi (I've given up), I don't think I'll ever buy another high end AMD platform. I'd rather pay the premium with intel and know things will work.

This is not entirely unrelated to this thread, as it pertains to getting a stable platform out. Live and learn.

If they delay making a new BIOS for their premium platform for too long or skip it altogether, then people will think twice before buying the next one. Surely people don't have the enthusiasm to buy another £1000 worth of hardware or more with the worry of RAM incompatibilities and BIOS bugs that may never be fixed.


Edited by JayB33 - 05 Mar 2018 at 7:38am

I think with Meltdown and Spectre most Bois people are bust elsewhere.

SoniC wrote: TR4 needs an AGESA update to be on par with AM4. Last one is 5 or 6 months old (1.0.0.4) which can be compared to the release level of 1.0.0.5 or pre-1.0.0.6 of the AM4 platform.