Public bug reported:
Intel's ICH5R onboard RAID controller doesn't work with Ubuntu 6.06 out
of the box. The motherboard is an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe. The onboard
promise controller also does not appear to work.
This is apparantly due to both controllers being software RAID and
requiring software in order to perform the mirroring/stripping. A
software package (in the Universe I believe) called DMRaid apparantly
supports these software RAID controllers.
For instance when I do install DMRaid, while booted on the LiveCD, and I
configure it, it can see the stripped array, but Gnome Partition Editor
doesn't recognize it other than the size of the drive and the type,
therefore I'm unable to resize this partition.
I looked at the boot options available and did not see any that were
applicable. Basically what I'm trying to do is boot into Ubuntu and use
Gnome Partition Editor to resize my NTFS partition in order to dual boot
both OS'es off of the mirror.
I recommend integrating this into the distribution or find a way to work
this into the kernel, many power users are buying these motherboards
now-a-days that give them simple RAID capabilities and their support in
Linux would be imperitive. I'm willing to help test or work on any of
this if necessary as I have a setup that appears to be a problem.
Thanks,
Scott
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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Intel RAID controller doesn't work
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57860
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