A tool to manage BIOS driven **Fake RAID** which is managed by the `dmraid` tool. It is useful when sharing volumes between Linux and Windows for example.
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Unable to mount Iomega HDD
Need help to read files off of an external hard drive.
Unable to mount Iomega HDD
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/justin/Iomega HDD:
Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o ...
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Will using DMRAID wipe my drive?
I have a sony win8 laptop -- that I like btw, but would love to dual boot ubuntu or multiboot with some other distros.
After much research and banging my head against the wall, it seems I have a ...
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Rescue system with dmraid (12.04LTS)
I've installed ubuntu into a fakeraid (dmraid). I used fakeraid because I'll need to dual boot with my Windows 8, which isn't still installed. My array and its partitions looks like the following ...
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How to install Kubuntu on other hard disk
I would like to install Kubuntu 12.10 on my computer. I have 2 hard drives, 500 GB each. I have Windows 7 Home Premium installed on one disk, and I want to install Kubuntu 12.10 on the other. How do I ...
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Grub cannot write bootloader - Dell xps 14 Intel smart response
I have a Dell xps 14 with dualboot windows 7 / ubuntu 12.10
on the windows side is active intel smart response ssd caching, while on the ubuntu side 11Gb ssd space is accessible as /dev/sdb1 .
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During an installation typed sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda, now windows 8 cannot start
During my installation of Ubuntu from a USB drive it couldn't detect my hard drive.
I researched and learned that if I deleted my raid (or whatever sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda does) then Ubuntu would ...
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broken raid 1 array - I think I messed up
I have a big problem with my raid setup. So if anyone is interested, please help...
I have a raid1 setup with 2 hdd. One day I saw in the SMART data of one on the disks that it had some bad sectors, ...
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DMRAID issues with Intel Matrix Storage (NTFS)
I have a RAID 5 array set up in Windows 7 using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, which is, to the best of my knowledge, known as "FakeRAID". I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS side-by-side with W7, and I'm ...
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ext4 filesystem wrongly detected as jmicron_raid_member
I have an installation of Ubuntu 12.04 on an SSD disk that I'm unable to boot after a kernel upgrade and a reboot. Additional things that might be a possible cause is that I did some cleanup (dpkg -r) ...
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Fixing broken raid0 with dmraid?
A while ago when I was still on Windows I had two secondary 1 TB hard drives that used a raid0 setup, fakeraid I believe with Intel. My primary hard drive died which seemed to have messed up the raid ...
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How do I configure SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 RAID0?
I've recently decided to switch from Windows to Linux environment as my primary and I've chosen Ubuntu. Right now, one of the stoppers is my RAID0, on which most of my information is stored. It's ...
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New 12.04 Install on RAID 0 with encrypted LVM for home AND swap?
I have an Asus laptop with 2 new 320GB WD hdd's. I want to do a Raid 0 install, but want to put both my / and swap partitions under encrypted lvm for security. What is the best way to do this from the ...
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How to re-add RAID-10 dropped drive? [closed]
I have a problem that I can't seem to solve. We have a Ubuntu server setup with RAID-10 and two of the drives dropped out of the array. When I try to re-add them using the following command:
mdadm ...
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GRUB fails to install on upgrade 12.04->12.10 (fakeraid)
I have a Gigabyte X85A-UD3R motherboard with an ICH10R. I also have a RAID 0 (striping) setup of 2x1TB disks, configured at the BIOS level (raid controler which boots before OS/after BIOS?) which ...
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Can i mount fake raid partitions with RAID disabled in bios?
Having issues with raid, dont want it anymore, so what i have is 2 raid partitions, and I moved my important data to one. Now what im going to do is install Linux on the first partition of one drive, ...
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WUBI no longer supports install to fakeraid?
About a week ago I used WUBI to install Ubuntu onto one of my two RAID1 devices in Windows 7.
I tried to do the same this week on the same mobo/drive combo and now I can't get it to install. It ...
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RAID not recognized by 12.04 LTS 64-bit
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
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Ubuntu partition not using RAID
A while ago (about 6 months) I set up what I thought was hardware RAID 1 in my BIOS (using the Intel Rapid Storage feature). In Windows the Intel storage manager recognised the RAID volume and synced ...
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Raid Shows Up as Multiple Drives - Can't Mount
I have a single hard drive that the OS is installed on and I have Sil raid card installed with two matching 500GB hdds set up in Raid 0 and formatted- they're completely empty. For whatever reason ...
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Soft RAID and dual boot with windows 7
My motherboard support Fake Raid. Can I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 and both running on Raid (Stripe)? How can I do that?
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How to modify/fix incorrectly detected dmraid (FakeRaid) RAID 10 array
I'm trying to get dmraid to properly detect an existing RAID 10 array, which is working fine within windows 7. In summary, the drive setup and bios partitioning is as following:
2 x SSD (120 GB), ...
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Un-raiding a two-disk fakeraid array
I have a system with two disks in a bios-configured RAID-1 array, currently dual-booting Win7 and Ubuntu 10.10. I opted for fakeraid, rather than softraid, so that the raided disk could be seen from ...
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can i have two seperate fakeRAID disks with two seperate controllers? [closed]
I have a nv and a sil3114 SATA controllers, each has a bios setup Raid 5 that Needs to be shared with windows... but i cant get either to work after trying what seems like everything.
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How do I automount a fake raid? [closed]
Hardware
Asus K8N4-E Deluxe Mobo
Sil 3114 fake raid, onboard
2 Seagate 250 gb hd, hosting my /home
A backup on a separate hard disk of /home
What I have so far
I've made the raid using the Sil ...
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Fake RAID (dmraid) not seeing new SATA drives
I have three drives in my machine, one SSD with 32GB and two 1TB drives, attached to an Intel 82801JI (ICH10) SATA AHCI Controller. The problem is, that I can access only one of the 1TB drives when ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 10.10 beside Windows 7 onto a fake raid?
I currently have 4 drives setup in Raid 10. I've tried installing Ubuntu straight to the metal but it does not recognize my Windows partition and upon quitting the installation and then restarting, my ...
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How to access a fake raid?
I have a fake raid, which I wanted to access using
mdadm /dev/md0 -A -c 128 -l stripe --verbose /dev/sda /dev/sdc
which should be right, as far as I understand the man page. But I get the message
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Why doesn't the installer see all of my hard drives?
I'm trying to setup a dual boot system with Windows Vista 64 (already installed) and Ubuntu 10.10. I added a new drive which is identical to the one Vista is installed on. When I boot into the LiveCD ...
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How does Ubuntu handle looking at a Windows Raid?
If I install Ubuntu on hard drive A and mount (via nautilus) hard drive B that has Windows 7 installed on it with a RAID1, could Ubuntu even remotely screw up the RAID Controller? Or would it look at ...
