Intel RAID controller doesn't work
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Bug Description
Intel's ICH5R onboard RAID controller doesn't work with Ubuntu 6.06 out of the box. The motherboard is an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe. The onboard promise controller also does not appear to work.
This is apparantly due to both controllers being software RAID and requiring software in order to perform the mirroring/
For instance when I do install DMRaid, while booted on the LiveCD, and I configure it, it can see the stripped array, but Gnome Partition Editor doesn't recognize it other than the size of the drive and the type, therefore I'm unable to resize this partition.
I looked at the boot options available and did not see any that were applicable. Basically what I'm trying to do is boot into Ubuntu and use Gnome Partition Editor to resize my NTFS partition in order to dual boot both OS'es off of the mirror.
I recommend integrating this into the distribution or find a way to work this into the kernel, many power users are buying these motherboards now-a-days that give them simple RAID capabilities and their support in Linux would be imperitive. I'm willing to help test or work on any of this if necessary as I have a setup that appears to be a problem.
Thanks,
Scott
Followup:
Presently there is no out of the box support for BIOS enabled software RAID such as the many that come with NVidia, Intel or Highpoint Chipsets. This can be a turn-off for power users wishing to dual-boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu.
Dual booting is easily performed, and the team has done an incredible job on a variety of systems, still I feel this area is severely lacking.
In order to even get Ubuntu to see the drive you have to install DMRaid, which is in the universe of repositories, once you enable it.
Subsequently with installing ntfs-tools I was able to successfully resize the partition using a combination of ntfs-resize & fdisk. Now Ubuntu installer is able to see the free space, but the installation fails, though it successfully creates the partitions it fails 15% way through "Installing System" with "Failed to create a file system":"Detecting Filesystems".