Intel RST on linux question.

nzoomed · 07-06-2020, 04:19 AM

Im aware that the crappy "fake" RAID has poor linux support, but I was led to believe you would still see the drives as individual drives on linux?

I have a RAID 1 mirror with it in windows, but was assuming it would be possible to read the drives as a single drive in linux?

I cant even see any of these drives showing on my system at all.

ondoho · 07-06-2020, 06:41 AM

I thought Intel RST stands for Rapid Start Technology.
What exactly are you refering to, and give some technical detail and troubleshooting info please.

michaelk · 07-06-2020, 07:04 AM

RST = Rapid Storage Technology

Does the output of the lsblk command show the individual drives? If it does I think you should be able access the filesystem otherwise probably not.

I have never tried but as far as I know RST is compatible with mdadm RAID tools and you should be able to build and mount a Windows RAID on a linux system. Make sure you perform a full Windows shutdown.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...inux-paper.pdf

mdadm --build /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1
mount /dev/md0 /mount/raid

ondoho · 07-06-2020, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

RST = Rapid Storage Technology

Now that's just funny.
Intel Rapid Start Technology is usually refered to as IRST. My bad, but couldn't they have chosen better acronyms?

michaelk · 07-06-2020, 07:25 AM

I guess I have seen it both ways. You would of thought so...

jefro · 07-06-2020, 03:43 PM

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...inux-paper.pdf

KGIII · 07-06-2020, 04:22 PM

I was doing some reading on this, just yesterday.

Root around in your BIOS for SATA settings and it needs to be changed to AHCI.

(Someone asked a similar question @ the AU site.)

Edit:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1256...123706_1256590

nzoomed · 07-06-2020, 09:14 PM

Well this is interesting, I had just gone to install Ubuntu and it shows me the drive as a RAID with a single disc on the installer.

My understanding was that if you did not have the drivers available that you would simply see the two volumes as normal hard disks, which was not the case on my Debian system.

Anyway, I dont really need to use the drive much, but would be handy if i could at least read its contents, since its a dual boot system with windows which uses it primarily.