Server on RAID volume?

[Jerry Houston]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 16:37:24 Brian McKee wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jerry Houston <jerry at effjayare.net> wrote:
> > New guy here.  Well, new to Ubuntu, anyway.
>
> Hi Jerry - Welcome!
>
> > When I tried, though, the server installer program couldn't see the RAID
> > 10 volume that my present server is installed on.  During the process, it
> > noticed the RAID, and asked me if I wanted to load its ATA RAID driver.
> >  I answered YES, but when we got to the partitioning part, the volume
> > wasn't there.
>
> Which disc did you try and install from? And is this dmraid
> (motherboard inexpensive raid) madm (software raid) or 'real hardware
> raid' ala adaptec?

It's RAID via the on-chip SATA controller (not the onboard SATA controller) on 
a newer Gigabyte AMD motherboard.  

I do also have a separate 4-port SATA raid controller that I could use in its 
place, but the on-chip version has worked fine with SuSE Linux, so I had hopes 
that it would work as-is with Ubuntu.

> The regular Live CD doesn't have all the RAID stuff there by default.
> You might want to use the alternate or the server cd - they both have
> the extra pieces you might need, depending on which you were trying.

I was using the 64-bit server CD.  The installation did say something about 
loading the RAID stuff (after asking me if I wanted that), but when it got to 
the partitioning part, nothing showed up. 

I thought if perhaps there was a problem with the RAID 10 array, I might try 
using two RAID 1 volumes instead.  I need the redundancy more than I need the 
speed in this case.  Being new at Ubuntu, I was hoping for a clue what to try 
next.

Thanks,

    Jerry in Bothell, WA