Installing Ubuntu on SATA RAID 0

[Scott]

Sean Hammond wrote:
> So I know someone who has two drives in a SATA RAID 0 stripe, using a
> Silicon Image 3112A chip (which is fakeraid), and was wondering if
> anyone with Linux raid experience might be able to offer anything.
> 
> He has Windows XP installed currently, and might be interested enough to
> install Ubuntu if it can dual-boot, but has given up because the
> complications introduced by his RAID setup were too much.

I had the same problem and gave up for months.  But I got interested
again as I was determined (and my support warranty on my computer was
nearing it's end).

From all the research I've done, I've found that SATA RAID 0 is not
possible with Linux, under any circumstances.   RAID 1? Yes.  RAID 0? No.

My computer is "in the shop" at the moment for an unrelated matter but
I've concluded my best option is to simply disable RAID entirely and
install Windoze on the first hard disk and Linux on the second.

I was just starting to work that out when my video card decided to give
up.  I have an ASUS mobo with a VIA K8T800 chipset.  The mobo comes with
an two integrated RAID controllers.  one from Promise and the other from
VIA.  The Promise was giving me trouble when I tried to disable it, so I
was bout to try switching the hard drive to the VIA (tech support
suggested this would probably work out for me in the end).

We'll see....

Now had my PC maker not enabled RAID in the first place (as instructed)
you'd not be reading this now...

Remind me not to buy from www.abspc.com again.

But I digress.....

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Scott
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