> 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 > Thanks Rick. Ultimately I plan to run this pre-installed Win10 in a VM under F29. The trick is to get a forensic copy of the existing pre-installed OS that I can read back into a VM using P2V. I'm not planning to dual boot. Note that this is a laptop (on steroids!), so using a "real" RAID controller is not feasible. --Doc Robert G. (Doc) Savage Fairview Heights, IL "Perfection is the enemy of good enough." -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov _______________________________________________ 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
