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Having some problems with 12.04 LTS not wanting to recognize my FakeRAID setup.

Hardware Specs:

  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
  • Motherboard: GA-990FXA-UD5
  • CPU: AMD FX-8150
  • RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866MHz 32GB
  • Graphic: 2x MSI Radeon HD 5770 in Xfire
  • HDD: 4x 1TB Wesdern Digital 7200rpm 3,5' << these are the ones in a FakeRAID setup
  • HDD: 2x Kingston HyperX 120GB 2,5' SSD (one for Windows 7 and one for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

When I try

dmraid -r

I get this response:

root@ubuntu-pc:~# dmraid -r 
ERROR: pdc: zero sectors on /dev/sdd 
ERROR: pdc: setting up RAID device /dev/sdd 
ERROR: pdc: zero sectors on /dev/sdc 
ERROR: pdc: setting up RAID device /dev/sdc 
ERROR: pdc: zero sectors on /dev/sdb 
ERROR: pdc: setting up RAID device /dev/sdb 
ERROR: pdc: zero sectors on /dev/sda 
ERROR: pdc: setting up RAID device /dev/sda 
no raid disks 

Right now these disks are empty, but I did test the RAID in Windows 7, which worked fine after installing the drivers.

Also, using cat I get this response:

root@ubuntu-pc:~# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
unused devices: < none > 

edit: OK, last time I did that cmd, personalities turned up blank.

Anyone have any ideas how to get my FakeRAID to work? OR how to make Ubuntu's SoftRAID to be recognized in Windows 7?

I need to be able to make 2 partitions on it; 1 NTFS (for windows apps) and the rest EXT4 for mounting my /home folder in.

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I have the same motherboard. I flashed it to F9. I cant get Ubuntu 12.04 x64 to boot to login screen. It gets stuck at the blank brownish purple blank screen and that's it. Sorry not trying to steal your thread your just the only search I've found so far trying to use Ubuntu on this mobo. Wish I could help you with your problem but I can't even get as far as you have gotten yet. – user84316 Aug 19 '12 at 16:12

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