Matthew A Coulliette wrote:
Hi all,
I was trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my new Dell Precision M6400, that
I bought from the Dell Depot.
As soon as I got it I installed 2 Western Digital 320gb Scorpio Sata
drives. I used the onboard Intel Matrix Storage Manager (v8.0.0.1039)
ICH9M-E to
Matthew,
The hardware RAID that is built into most desktop motherboards (including
yours) is not really hardware RAID it's software RAID in bios.
Running with software RAID in Linux is actually better than the horribly
limited BIOS-based software RAID. The onboard RAID in consumer
Intel raid is a firmware based soft raid
So it won't work as is
Linux just has no drivers
Likely never will
On 11/6/09, Matthew A Coulliette matthew...@cox.net wrote:
Hi all,
I was trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my new Dell Precision M6400, that
I bought from the Dell Depot.
As soon as
Note Intel is probably the best of the firmware/softraids
On 11/7/09, Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.net wrote:
Matthew,
The hardware RAID that is built into most desktop motherboards
(including yours) is not really hardware RAID it's software RAID in bios.
Running with software
Hi all,
I was trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my new Dell Precision M6400, that
I bought from the Dell Depot.
As soon as I got it I installed 2 Western Digital 320gb Scorpio Sata
drives. I used the onboard Intel Matrix Storage Manager (v8.0.0.1039)
ICH9M-E to mirror the drives, (Raid 1). I gave
