[Lula] Linux driver for Intel Storage MAnager (RAID)

[TheBlueSage]

yep, it is a fake RAID. I'm not even sure if the guy who owns and spec'd
and bought the server is aware of that.
(lots more reading confirmed it. Thanks Michael for setting me in the
right direction. In the end I ended up at a site of an Australian
engineer who made 'mdadm' which I discovered is a Linux RAID app. The
Ubuntu installer is actually equipped to deal with software RAID using
mdadm, but it was extremely hard to find in their options part of the
disk manager. 
In the end it all worked out fine though, nice little RAID1 setup....

thanks for  the pointers

Richard



On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:00 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote:

> TheBlueSage wrote:
> >
> > The server was shipped to me with this Raid controller :
> >
> > Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v5.6.2.1002 ICH7R wRAID5
> >
> >   
> Richard,
> 
> Looks like you want the "dmraid" package:
> 
> Description: Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool
>  dmraid discovers, activates, deactivates and displays properties
>  of software RAID sets (eg, ATARAID) and contained DOS partitions.
>  .
>  dmraid uses the Linux device-mapper to create devices with respective
>  mappings for the ATARAID sets discovered.
>  .
>  The following formats are supported:
>   Highpoint HPT37X/HPT45X
>   Intel Software RAID
>   LSI Logic MegaRAID
>   NVidia NForce RAID (nvraid)
>   Promise FastTrack
>   Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm)
>   VIA Software RAID
>  .
>  Please read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/dmraid BEFORE attempting
>  any use of this software. Improper use can cause data loss!
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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