On 11/30/18 2:24 PM, dsavage--- via users wrote: > Does Fedora 29 support the Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology) chip for > hardware RAID? My new ThinkPad P72 came with an RST chip set up with two > 2TB PCIe M.2 SSDs in a RAID1 config. The Fedora-29-MATE-Compiz spin DVD > doesn't "see" it. Nor does Clonezilla. > > There's a BIOS mode setting for the Intel RST: "RST" mode for RAID, and > "AHCI" mode for separate SATA drives. Changing that setting to AHCI will > probably break the RAID1 array and render the P72 unbootable. I don't know > if that would a destructive, irreversible change, or if changing the mode > setting back to RST would restore everything. > > I've only tried the MATE spin. One purpose of this question is to find out > if the full installation DVD supports the Intel RST chip. Yes, you can use RST with Fedora, but you have to import the RST metadata into mdadmin before you partition and install the OS. There are a number of articles out there you can read that describes the process. Google is your friend. Note that you'll use mdadmin to manage the RST stuff when running Linux and the RST tools that come with Windows when running Windows.. That being said, I've never done this in the installer as I never dual boot Windows and Linux using the same physical disks. For the (very) few times I must share a machine between the two, I have one set of disks for Windows and a separate set of disks for Linux. In my world, Windows gets run in VMs with Linux as the host OS. Thus, I use mdadmin and its metadata natively for my RAID stuff as I don't have to share that metadata with Windows. Preferably, I use a _real_ RAID controller--but they can be expensive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
