Intel matrix storage manager support?
Robbie Williamson
robbie at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 15 18:47:54 UTC 2011
On 02/15/2011 07:10 AM, jurgen.depicker at let.be wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As you may know, many Intel motherboards ship with a BIOS fakeraid
> (software raid). Presently, Ubuntu doesn't seem to know how to handle
> these, apparently due to mdadm being too old: as far as I know, imsm is
> supported starting from mdadm V3 and higher. I checked the ubuntu
> packages, and came to know that v3 will be shipped in the upcoming
> release 11.04 (natty). The present version of mdadm is below 3.
>
> Presently, I use SW raid on many of our servers. But for some customer
> installations, support of imsm would be nice. Will ubuntu support imsm
> raids by default?
I'm not sure I understand your question. We will have mdadm v3.1.4 by
default, and support for it in the installer (via mdadm-udeb). If this
version supports imsm raids, as you've indicated, then I believe the
answer to your question is "yes".
-Robbie
>
> Some relevant info I found on the web:
> http://www.expert.tc/topic.php?id=159833
> -> After running
> mdadm --assemble --scan
> which finds and assembles the container, running
> mdadm -I /dev/md/imsm0
> assembles the arrays inside the container.
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-13-1-64-bit-with-intel-matrix-storage-manager-807930/
>
> -> a guy struggling to get his RAID working on Slackware, which didn't
> include mdadm v3 yet.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Jürgen Depicker*
>
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