I have a MSI GS60E Ghost Pro laptop. It is quite complex:
2 SSD in raid 0 (intel Raid)
1 HDD standard SATA
2 Gpus (intel and nvidia)
I was trying to upgrade my trusty to utopic.
On trusty if I remember well there was no way to have a functionnal intel raid disks. I had delete the raid an go to 2 separate disk to take advantage of the SSD (involved reinstalling secondary OS).
Legacy boot:
On utopic, I can now use it but the name of the device is still strange (don't know if it is expected, but on other scsi harware I had I always had standards name /dev/sdx...):
/dev/mapper/isw_ihbcddegh_SSD, where SSD is the name given at raid creation of the volume.
Despite of this device I still have access to bare device /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, with the added of being able to destroy the raid it if we let the default /dev/sda for grub install of utopic desktop.
At install time we see /dev/mapper/isw_.... /dev/sda /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, but it is readable,.
UEFI boot:
If we boot on UEFI, it is more complex, as grub is not able to find the windows bootmanager for unknown reason (maybe not related).
Don't know if I need to put it elsewhere, but at install selction of disks and partitions, it is also a bit confusing as it show txo devices /dev/mapper/isw_.... each with the copy of the partitions (split the raid) plus /dev/sda, /dev/sdb I don't remember, if we saw partitions on the equaly.
I can make some undestructive tests for you (had hard time at making a working install on this machine).
You can find some hardware infos about the config there:
Hi,
I have a MSI GS60E Ghost Pro laptop. It is quite complex:
2 SSD in raid 0 (intel Raid)
1 HDD standard SATA
2 Gpus (intel and nvidia)
I was trying to upgrade my trusty to utopic.
On trusty if I remember well there was no way to have a functionnal intel raid disks. I had delete the raid an go to 2 separate disk to take advantage of the SSD (involved reinstalling secondary OS).
Legacy boot:
On utopic, I can now use it but the name of the device is still strange (don't know if it is expected, but on other scsi harware I had I always had standards name /dev/sdx...):
/dev/mapper/ isw_ihbcddegh_ SSD, where SSD is the name given at raid creation of the volume.
Despite of this device I still have access to bare device /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, with the added of being able to destroy the raid it if we let the default /dev/sda for grub install of utopic desktop.
At install time we see /dev/mapper/ isw_... . /dev/sda /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, but it is readable,.
UEFI boot:
If we boot on UEFI, it is more complex, as grub is not able to find the windows bootmanager for unknown reason (maybe not related).
Don't know if I need to put it elsewhere, but at install selction of disks and partitions, it is also a bit confusing as it show txo devices /dev/mapper/ isw_... . each with the copy of the partitions (split the raid) plus /dev/sda, /dev/sdb I don't remember, if we saw partitions on the equaly.
I can make some undestructive tests for you (had hard time at making a working install on this machine).
You can find some hardware infos about the config there:
http:// paste.ubuntu. com/8478288/