DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, April 22, 2010 09:47 AM, J wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 21:26, Alvin Thompson<alvin at thompsonlogic.com>  wrote:
>> On 04/21/2010 08:54 PM, Xander Pirdy wrote:
>>> I have posted a bug report, it can be found here:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/568183.
>>
>> I just looked at the original issue #191119 and, are they serious?  This
>> issue was reported OVER TWO F**KING YEARS AGO, confirmed by multiple
>> people, and no one of the developers even bothered to look at it?  And
>> no mention of it in the release notes?
>
> If all these are indeed the same thing happening, there is nothing to
> really be done about it.  If this is the case, and now after reading
> the other bugs mentioned, it seems so (especially since you never
> actually told us what kind of hardware you have, so we have to guess
> at what the root cause really is), the problem is really the fault of
> whichever company made the onboard controller.

BBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTT!

I am sorry but your claim does not have any weight since Alvin had a 
WORKING solution.


>
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> More importantly, you can not blame Ubuntu for this as it was an issue
> LONG before Ubuntu even existed.  It affects, best I can tell, EVERY
> Linux distro and variant in existance.  Why? Because the companies
> that make these fake raid controllers don't create usable Linux
> drivers.  They put all the magic fakeRAID code in their proprietary
> drivers (e.g. Windows) but do not put them in any Open Source driver
> they release (and it's never been successfully implemented in a
> pure-community developed driver either, to my knowledge).

I am afraid Alvin does have every reason to blame Ubuntu because he is 
not even using fakeraid. Go back up another tree.