ddotthomas wrote:
Sep 2020 check in, x370 still the last supported generation, still nothing for x470 or x570. Git f*cked high end mobo user's.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x370 (Win 7, 10 and linux)
https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x470 (Win 7 and 10)https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x570 (Win 10)
Noticing a pattern?
If you use Ubuntu, you can try using the thopiekar PPA which provide a patched version of the x370 RAID drivers for Linux that has been patched to support X399, X570, X470 and B450 as well. Sadly it's SATA RAID only and stuck at 8.1.0.
The more disturbing thing is in the latest version of the RAID manual- apparently there are newer versions of the drivers out there. Just that AMD tells you to go talk to your motherboard manufacturer, who if they decide to not provide the drivers, won't (seriously. I checked Gigabyte and Asrock's website. No sign of this RCRAID 9.3 that the manual mentions). Even more humiliating is that the new version adds support for NVME RAID.
I was just about to convert my Threadripper build to Linux because the Killer NIC LAN under Windows 10 is extremely unstable and requires me to unplug and re-plug my network switch from the workstation regularly or it would randomly suddenly drop connection, and it has gotten worse as of late (Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7, which is the only X399 board Gigabyte Malaysia sells. I switched from an Asrock X399 Taichi because that board let out magic smoke and upped during a TimeSpy Extreme run... with everything at stock settings, hence I don't trust Asrock with the X399 chipset anymore. I am still soured with how MSI handled the capacitor plague two decades ago and thus avoided that brand, and now that I think of it, I recall that MSI also uses Killer NIC on their X399 boards, and Asus' board is too expensive at over RM4000). I tested it under Linux and the NIC was stable as a rock. So I want to switch it to Linux. Except that it is not possible to do so without the newer RAID drivers because of my NVME disk configuration (three in RAID-0. I'm given three ports and thus I'm entitled to use it all). Killer Networking has been unhelpful, Gigabyte's support on this matter is appalling (they keep insisting that the Killer NIC is flawless despite dozens of complains out there instead of getting Killer to fix their drivers). And no, I do not want to resort to a USB or PCIe NIC.
Why AMD wouldn't just work with the DMRAID people to add support for their RAID solution in Linux universally is beyond me. I've already brought this up many times but AMD won't listen. AMD champions open source software for their GPUs and that model works extremely well for both AMD and the end users (out of the box support for Radeon graphics, as a result the DRM and KMS driver for AMD is extremely mature and stable and all distros support acceleration out of the box). Why won't they do the same for their RAID?
