On Jan 5, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:36 PM, aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID.
My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS.
"Intel RAID" covers a lot of sins.
Yes, I like this, and a lot of BS.
Some RAID cards rely on OS software to do much of the RAID: they're jokes, really. If it's a real RAID chipset, no Linux or Windows kernel should even be *AWARE* of the multiple disks, except perhaps for some limited reporting tools.
Exactly which chipset are you dealing with? On what kind of machine.
Instead of typing this;
linux text nodmraid
I used this;
linux text smenodmraid
... and all is well.
Although I've a feeling that just installing in text mode rather than GUI would have been enough.
My specs;
Supermicro X8DT3-LN4F with the Intel 5520 chipset.