Yes, i understand that it's a driver for BIOS magic that i'd rather not use.
> When you create a RAID from the BIOS it does a RAID1 or whatever on the > entire array using all the drives you select. You cant do a partial bios > raid setup as this is illogical. Is there a usage scenario where this causes problems? It's running, i'm using it, and it appears to work just fine. I agree, it's an ugly hack, but so is BIOS raid... If it's a dangerous hack, how is this likely to manifest? > It is much simpler to just use dmraid instead of mdadm, it will gather > the raid setup from the bios without you having to do anything. The "official" ubuntu documentation begs to differ with respect to both ease and safety: from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto: "FakeRAID is not supported by Ubuntu." "So it secures the system from data loss, but the system can nonetheless crash. " Not entirely confidence-inspiring... -- Dual-boot install using mdadm root fails to boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392510 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
