Asus M4A79XTD EVO Raid Driver Ubutnu 9.10

freddo · 11-17-2009, 03:29 AM

Hi guys, I've just bought the asus motherboard M4A79XTD EVO and I tried to install ubuntu 9.10. I've the hard disk in Raid 1 mode but, I don't know the reason, Ubuntu 9.10 see 2 physical disks instead of one. I think that ubuntu does not have the raid driver but I "googled" on this topic and I've seen that, someone said that ubuntu has not any problem with chipset's motherboard. Is there anyone that can help me? Thank you very much.

cladisch · 11-18-2009, 09:10 AM

Like with almost every other motherboard chipset, this one does not actually do RAID; everything is done in software in the BIOS or in the operating system's drivers.
If you don't share the disk with Windows, just create a software RAID mirror in Ubuntu, and ignore the BIOS RAID.

freddo · 11-19-2009, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by cladisch

Like with almost every other motherboard chipset, this one does not actually do RAID; everything is done in software in the BIOS or in the operating system's drivers.
If you don't share the disk with Windows, just create a software RAID mirror in Ubuntu, and ignore the BIOS RAID.

You said that my MB hasn't hardware RAID but I'm sure that my southbrige has the raid controller. In windows I've installed the raid controller driver. Can you explane me how i can resolve this problem? I would know how i can realize software RAID if I can't use hw raid. Thank you

cladisch · 11-19-2009, 07:36 AM

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You said that my MB hasn't hardware RAID but I'm sure that my southbrige has the raid controller. In windows I've installed the raid controller driver.

A hardware RAID controller would present the array as one virtual disk to the operating system.
In your case, the disks would should up as individual disks unless the driver is installed, which proves that it is the driver that does the "RAIDing".

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I would know how i can realize software RAID if I can't use hw raid.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto