Problems installing Fedora 10 64 bit with ICH10R RAID

Christian_Hicks · #1 28th November 2008, 09:55 AM

I have a P5Q3 Deluxe Wifi-AP@n motherboard which has the Intel ICH10R RAID controller. I have two Samsung HD103UJ drives that are mirrored. I have already installed Vista 64 bit. Fedora 10 is not recognising the RAID i.e. it is just seeing the two Samsung HD103UJ drives. Does anybody know of a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Chris.

chief121 · #2 28th November 2008, 06:46 PM

Noone seems to know the answer to this, but I have the same issue with an ICH9R Raid 0, it just won't detect it.

okcomputer44 · #3 30th November 2008, 12:01 AM

Hi,

I'm having the same problem with Dell PERC 320/DC raid card. There is even no any trick on the raid card just two simple scsi hdds volume1 and volume2 that is all.

I can't even boot the system it says error mounting the dev/root on /sysroot. (the kernel alive cos when I pushed the alt+ctlr+del it stooping the devices than reboot itselfs)

I really don't get it why. I just erased the Ubuntu thingy from my system to get some space to install Fedora. I installed Ubuntu just to have a look another distro's and that one worked very well.

I meant everything even my ATI card too.

CentOS good, Ubuntu good and I suppose the Debian can work too because the Ubuntu basically debian's source code.

So I'll have a try to install with adaptec U160 controller to have a look what is going on.

Laz

Christian_Hicks · #4 30th November 2008, 08:40 PM

It is a little frustrating, but I think the best workaround appears to be intall another disk for Fedora (i.e. one that is not attached to the RAID). If I put an NTFS partition on the new disk that I will be able copy files onto the RAID for safe keeping.

stevea · #5 30th November 2008, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by okcomputer44

Hi,

I'm having the same problem with Dell PERC 320/DC raid card. There is even no any trick on the raid card just two simple scsi hdds volume1 and volume2 that is all.

No - you are having an entirely different problem. You should post your own thread.
A real PERC raid controller has no relationship with Intel ICHx fakeraid.

stevea · #6 30th November 2008, 09:13 PM

For the ICH9, ICH10 -

Can you post your exact part number. As root a "lspci -nnk" will result in a list with some SATA lines like this (for my ICH8).

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2821] (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci

wavieira · #7 1st December 2008, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevea

No - you are having an entirely different problem. You should post your own thread.
A real PERC raid controller has no relationship with Intel ICHx fakeraid.

I have the Dell Studio 540 with the ICHx fakeraid, and most of the suggstions I get involve removing the raid partitions altogether and not use Intel Matrix Raid, which is terribly unhelpful. This is dual booted Vista system, and moving data off (and then back on) is not practical.

However, th workaround of adding an additional non-raid disk, may have to do. I'd prefer to kow if there is a solution, however.

redsoxs98 · #8 11th December 2008, 03:10 PM

I just purchased the P5Q-EM motherboard and would like to dual boot it with vista 64 and fedora 64 bit. I have purchased 3 1TB drives that i would like to configure in a RAID 5 configuration. I have an additional SATA drive in which i will install both the OS for vista and fedora.

I am a newbie with RAID. According to the posts here if i install my OS on my separate drive that is not part of the RAID will fedora still pick up the RAID?

Christian_Hicks · #9 11th December 2008, 03:16 PM

It won't see the RAID, it will just see the disks that comprise the RAID as separate disks.

LBCoder · #10 11th December 2008, 04:44 PM

It won't see the raid because there is no raid. ICHx is NOT a raid controller. It is a standard controller. Raid function is provided through the DRIVER and not the hardware. For this reason, it is popularly referred to as FAKERAID. If you want software raid, use software raid. If you want hardware raid, buy a raid controller.

Christian_Hicks · #11 11th December 2008, 05:03 PM

So is there a Fedora driver that I can use to see the disks as a fake RAID?

Cheers,
Chris.

LBCoder · #12 15th December 2008, 05:37 AM

You use SOFTWARE RAID. Fakeraid is like shooting yourself in the foot. DON'T USE IT!

dj_judas21 · #13 2nd January 2009, 10:42 PM

I am having exactly the same problem as the OP. I have read and understood this thread, and it seems the overwhelming advice is either to buy a real RAID controller, or use software RAID.

But supposing this was not possible and I really wanted to use my ICH10R to mimic hardware RAID, is this possible?

dagtveit · #14 19th January 2009, 04:20 PM

both ubuntu and kubuntu can be installed on the intel chis if you use the installer cd not the live cd

beezel · #15 14th February 2009, 01:00 AM

I also have a P5Q-E w/ ICH10R and f10 installer fails to pick it up as a raid.

in response to everyone saying go software raid (im assuming mdadm) or get a real card: that's a good strategy, but if you want to dual boot from that array it wont work w/ software raid. Good luck getting windows onto that array.

Anyone have any ideas as to getting the installer to recognize the controller - rather than using a different method? I'd really like to not have to use ubuntu

thanks,

justin

EDIT: i've found a solution to the ICH10R controller not being found: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468649
there is a simple:
updates=http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/updates474399-x86_64.img
command to add to at boot (press tab during selection from install dvd/cd).

this allowed anaconda to display my array, and formatted and partitioned it correctly. However, the installation fails for me shortly after partitioning is complete, with an "unknown error."