I sent this email to Supermicro support. While I await answers... You guys any ideas?? RAID question: Supermicro H8QGI+-F (1x PCI): AMD SP5100 (RAID 0, 1, 10) only shows unique discs, not one logical RAID drive / device / volume.
Hello,
I'm trying to use a RAID10 (4x disk configuration) on my server.
Though all devices install correctly (by default by Microsoft UPdate on Windows 2012 R2 x64 OR with manual update to your provided drivers), Windows Disk Administrator itself only shows 3 non-initialized disks. Which is strange, because I used the RAID BIOS (Ctrl-A) to create the array successfully. When booting I get a message the array is there and consists of 4 discs (2 types, per type mirrored).
In Windows though, just three disks that need initialization. The fourth disc just disappears I guess? No logical device found for the RAID either.
I spent 2 days with Windows based boot cd's, adding drivers either when creating the DVD or manually adding them with the software after booting, but always: 3 discs, no RAID. Finally I booted Windows itself again (disk is failing, so I'd rather not have booted the system again). There I checked and even upgraded the drivers to your version but again: 3 disks, no raid (though once I saw 4 disks to be initialized... Dunno why).
Could you help me? Am I missing something obvious (dumb) here? Or what gives :/
Regards,
Nuis (NL)