SSD7202 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the SSD7202 controller EFI will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot. Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
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SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide And ‘Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration ‘CPU Slot PCI-E OPROM’ to ‘EFI’. If the SSD7202 has been connected to the motherboard CPU1Slot2 PCI-E X16, you should set "CPU1Slot2 PCI-E X16 OPROM" to "EFI"; Disable ‘Secure Boot’, set ‘Secure Boot’ to ‘Disabled’;...
Set " Boot->Secure Boot->OS Type" to "Other OS". Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7202 Unzip SSD7202 UEFI package to root dir (/) of a USB flash driver, and insert the USB flash drive to the motherboard; Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment;...
SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Step 4 Create Array Attach two NVMe SSD to SSD7202 Controller; Note Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32. Boot, in the presence of the motherboard Log screen, there will be NVMe SSD information:...
SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Command “create RAID0 * ”. Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity. Command “exit”; For more command usages, refer to Appendix A. Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette a. Extract HighPoint_NVMe_CentOS_7u8_x86_64_ vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/) directory of an USB flash drive.
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SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Press CTRL+X or F10 to start the system. d. When following messages show up, type the line number that line with the LABEL of USB flash drive. In this example, type 1 and press Enter e.
SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Refer to RHEL/CentOS Linux installation guide to continue the installation and when installation finishes and prompts you to reboot the system: Open source driver needs to be installed after system installation. Run the .bin file to install the driver package.
This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device list. 4 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to SSD7202 controller. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.
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SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Appendix A Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete. Create Command Syntax Create Array Type (RAID0/RAID1) Member Disk list (1/1,1/2|*)Capacity(100|*) Examples <<< create RAID0 <<< create RAID0 * <<< create RAID0 * * Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.