Installing Ubuntu on SATA RAID 0

[Sean Hammond]

On Windows, the proprietary fakeraid driver comes on a floppy disk that the
Windows installer asks for. As I understand it dmraid is what will
(hopefully) take the place of this Windows driver. If I downloaded the
dmraid package onto a disk, might there be any way to interrupt the Ubuntu
installer, load this package, then continue with the normal installation?

On 12/6/05, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Doesn't work" is the only error description I have at the moment. I asked
> him exactly what happens but haven't found out yet.
>
> Thanks for clarifying the RAID driver situation. I understand what's going
> on now, he needs to use dmraid, and assuming all goes well can probably
> follow the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto, except
> for this unknown error with the LiveCD. If I can get more info about the
> error maybe we can make some more progress..
>
> On 12/6/05, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > What exactly do you mean it doesn't work?  "Doesn't work" is not a very
> > good error description to go on ;)
> >
> > As for raid drivers, that's kind of a misnomer in the case of fakeraid.
> >   The controller is really just a regular IDE controller with some
> > special BIOS and a proprietary windows driver that performs the raid
> > functions.  Under linux it should be supported by a driver built on
> > libata, only raid does not enter the picture.  More likely than not,
> > this will work right out of the box with ubuntu.  The driver treats the
> > controller as the normal IDE controller that it is, and so it provides
> > access to the individual drives, not the raid volume.  For the raid
> > access you need the kernel mapper device, which dmraid configures.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sean Hammond wrote:
> > > Disaster! It turns out the LiveCD doesn't work on the PC in mention,
> > so
> > > we are back to square one.
> > >
> >
> >
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