Server on RAID volume?

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Jerry Houston <jerry at effjayare.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 16:37:24 Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jerry Houston <jerry at effjayare.net> wrote:
>> > New guy here.  Well, new to Ubuntu, anyway.
>>
>> Hi Jerry - Welcome!
>>
>> > When I tried, though, the server installer program couldn't see the RAID
>> > 10 volume that my present server is installed on.  During the process, it
>> > noticed the RAID, and asked me if I wanted to load its ATA RAID driver.
>> >  I answered YES, but when we got to the partitioning part, the volume
>> > wasn't there.
>>
>> Which disc did you try and install from? And is this dmraid
>> (motherboard inexpensive raid) madm (software raid) or 'real hardware
>> raid' ala adaptec?
>
> It's RAID via the on-chip SATA controller (not the onboard SATA controller) on
> a newer Gigabyte AMD motherboard.
>
> I do also have a separate 4-port SATA raid controller that I could use in its
> place, but the on-chip version has worked fine with SuSE Linux, so I had hopes
> that it would work as-is with Ubuntu.
>
>> The regular Live CD doesn't have all the RAID stuff there by default.
>> You might want to use the alternate or the server cd - they both have
>> the extra pieces you might need, depending on which you were trying.

> I was using the 64-bit server CD.  The installation did say something about
> loading the RAID stuff (after asking me if I wanted that), but when it got to
> the partitioning part, nothing showed up.

Hmm - I don't know much about dmraid I'm afraid.  Using the server cd
should have given you all the tools to work with it though afaik.
Perhaps someone else can jump in here...

Brian
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