Hi, Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote (Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:58:29 +0200): > AFAIK, platforms which support IMSM are: > - Intel Matrix Storage Technology (IMST) on SATA - EOL. > - Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) on SATA - EOL. > - Intel Volume Management Device (VMD) on NVMe - current. > - Intel RAID on CPU (VROC) on Xeon + NVMe - current. > > It should be mentioned in BIOS/UEFI options or boot screen. Even though, > no need for specific hardware: an IMSM container and volumes can be > created and used on SATA (and maybe NVMe) drives on any amd64 physical > or virtual machine in d-i with a small adjustment. > > Regarding how common it is, the only use cases I can think about are: > - dual boot with Windows on the same drives > - seamless redundant UEFI boot
Ok, so if you think it's worth the effort, given there are some valid use cases, and fakeRAID has a reasonable user basis, I'm ok with this approach. Since I can only do tests via the "IMSM container and volumes created on a SATA drive on a amd64 virtual machine" path, it would be good, to have one or more users, who can do tests on a physical machine, ideally with one of the above mentioned hardware platforms. Are you aware of someone? Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
