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Questions tagged [fakeraid]

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How do I (re)build/create/assemble an IMSM RAID-0 array from disk images instead of disk drives using mdadm?

The question: Using Linux and mdadm, how can I read/copy data as files from disk images made from hard disks used in an Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID-0 array (formatted as NTFS, Windows 7 installed)? The problem: One of the drives in the…
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Linking Intel RAID 5 partitions to boot disk

I have a 5-disk Intel RAID 5 along with a 6th boot disk with /, /boot, and swap. What I was planning to do was mount the Intel RAID partitions (which I've added with fdisk) so that the 6th disk /home, /var, /srv, etc. link to the RAID on the other 5…
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RAID-1 mirror has become a single hard disk

I have an HP N40L microserver, with 2 identical drives, I used the system to hardware-RAID them as a mirror. I then installed mint on the system about a year ago. This has been running perfectly, updating, etc. until I upgraded to Mint 17. I thought…
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Installing to a PCIE sata card

I have an ASUS P5Q deluxe from an old gaming computer that I'm converting to a server. Unfortunately, while their silly onboard fake RAID thing(drive xpert) worked fine in Windows, the drives are not being detected at all when I attempt to install…
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Linux Mint installer does not see fakeraid drive

I have a computer with a fakeraid 0 array (the computer came with it, and I don't want to remove my other OS to get rid of it), and I am trying to install Linux Mint. When I first boot up from the live usb, the partitions on the raid array do not…
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Dual Boot Debian on Raid 0 in UEFI mode

My new notebook came from the factory with Windows 8 on two 128GB SSDs in RAID 0 mode. I wanted to dual boot it with a Linux distro, I settled on Debian, so I resized my C: drive as one normally would to free up some space for the Linux install. I…
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MD soft-raid to replace fake raid: How to get rid of old metadata?

I had a system running with fake RAID (Intel controller, imsm), which had some problems. Now I'm switching to the regular MD soft-RAID - I created a RAID 1 on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Seems to work fine. Unfortunately a run of mdadm --examine…
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How to rebuild a two drive raid 1 array on Linux?

I need to rebuild a two drive (160x2) raid 1 (mirror) array. It was an Intel raid from a 7 year old Dell computer (Windows). Both drives are assumed to be functioning. The raid was created with an on-board motherboard raid program. It's been quite a…
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How to determine if a controller is true hardraid or fakeraid?

I've just bought a new SAS/SATA controller (Highpoint RocketRAID RR2720SGL) and it looks like it is hardware raid, but I've no idea how to tell if it is true hardware raid or yet another fakeraid controller. (I don't care as I'm using softraid at…
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HP B120i Raid showing two disk in CentOS7

We have HP DL360e G8 with B120i RAID controller (which is FakeRAID) and i have configured RAID 1 in RAID configuration utility. After CentOS 7 installation when i run fdisk -l i am seeing two individual disk with same partition size. I should…
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How do I mount an existing intel rst raid-5?

I recently installed Linux Mint 18.1 and am dual booting alongside Windows 10. I have two RAID arrays that I want to access, but only one seems to work out of the box. One is a RAID-0 with two disks (my Windows system drives) and another is a RAID-5…
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AMD Fakeraid and Debian?

I can't get my (AMD-based) BIOS RAID to work with either Debian or Ubuntu. With my BIOS in AHCI mode, I successfully detect all drives; however, in RAID mode, all SATA drives disappear, and I can only see my NVMe card. I've set dmraid=true, but I…
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fakeraid + UEFI + GPT - grub doesn't detect raid volume after debian install using dmraid

I have a post on the debian forums as well but it seems to have less traffic than here so I thought I'd try my luck here as well. I'm trying to install windows 10 and debian and possibly more distros on a fakeraid using UEFI and GPT. So I follow…
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How to check FakeRAID is doing fine?

I have my very first Xeon server computer. It has two disks in (FakeRAID) RAID1. The BIOS of the RAID controller says the status is Normal. But, I would like to know if there is a way to check from the system-side, that everything is doing fine. Can…
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No Raid feature in Redhat Hypervisor

We purchased Supermicro Server "SUPERMICRO CSE-827H-R1400B" . And each of its node has 9TB Storage . And we planned to use this server as a Host for Virtual Machines. So i started to install the hypervisor on each node. And created Raid 5 now…
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