SSD7103 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the SSD7103 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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SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide Disable "Secure Boot", set "Attempt Secure Boot" to "Disabled". 2. Set UEFI setting with ASUS PRIME X299 -DELUXE motherboard as an example: Set "Boot from Storage Devices" to "UEFI driver first"; And "Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy OPROM";...
Set "OS Type" to "Other OS". Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7103 Unzip SSD7103 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 ;...
SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide Step 4 Create Array Attach four NVMe SSD to SSD7103 Controller ; Note Make sure your USB flash partition format is NTFS or FAT32. Boot, in the presence of the motherboard Log screen, there will be NVMe SSD information:...
SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 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 Extract HighPoint_NVMe_Debian_10.3.0_x86_64_vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/) directory of an USB flash drive.
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SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide d. When the Installation screen appears, press ‘e’ to edit boot command line option On the edit command window, move the cursor to the end of line “linux /install/vmlinuz... ”, and append "modprobe.blacklist=nvme" (double quotation mark are not include).
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SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide ← Unmount the USB flash drive # umount /hptdd When the USB flash drive is unmounted, please unplug the USB flash drive from the mainboard. And then execute following command to install driver to install the Linux Debian.
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 controller. Installation of the management SSD7103 software is optional but recommended.
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SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide Appendix A Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete. Create Command Syntax Create Array Type (RAID0/RAID1/RAID10) 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.
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