Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2025-03-03 at 02:06 +, Amadeus WM via users wrote: > Anything done in hardware must be faster than in software, so if true raid > works correctly and is being recognized by the os, I think it's > preferable. Not necessarily so. And drives in hardware raid *may* only work in that har

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/2/25 6:06 PM, Amadeus WM via users wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 17:20:11 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: If the OS can see all 4 drives, then the "RAID" isn't hardware RAID and isn't really doing anything. Is there a reason you don't want to use the Linux software RAID? It's generally a better opt

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: If the OS can see all 4 drives, then the "RAID" isn't hardware RAID and isn't really doing anything. Is there a reason you don't want to use the Linux software RAID? It's generally a better option. Here's one data point on why Linux mdraid is better. Many years ago Gru

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Amadeus WM via users
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 19:40:08 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > It is termed "fakeraid". It is not hardware raid. The only hardware > that exists for it is a couple of entries in the bios and on the disk > saying the disk are raid. > > All of the work is done in the driver/OS. > > And generally on lin

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Amadeus WM via users
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 17:20:11 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/2/25 2:09 PM, Amadeus WM via users wrote: >> I just built a brand new pc with a Gigabyte B650 Gaming AX v2 >> motherboard with 2xnvme drives and 2xssd drives. In UEFI I configured >> two raid-1 arrays, one for nvme and one for ssd. Then

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Roger Heflin
It is termed "fakeraid". It is not hardware raid. The only hardware that exists for it is a couple of entries in the bios and on the disk saying the disk are raid. All of the work is done in the driver/OS. And generally on linux (and windows) it has been poorly supported and always needed an add

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/2/25 2:09 PM, Amadeus WM via users wrote: I just built a brand new pc with a Gigabyte B650 Gaming AX v2 motherboard with 2xnvme drives and 2xssd drives. In UEFI I configured two raid-1 arrays, one for nvme and one for ssd. Then booted from the Fedora 41 live image and started the installatio

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Amadeus WM via users
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:54:04 +, Barry wrote: >> On 2 Mar 2025, at 22:10, Amadeus WM via users >> wrote: >> >> Gigabyte B650 Gaming AX v2 motherboard > > This board does not appear to have hardware raid. > You may just have BIOS RAID. > > Which linux should have detected. > > Barry I thoug

Re: raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Barry
> On 2 Mar 2025, at 22:10, Amadeus WM via users > wrote: > > Gigabyte B650 Gaming AX v2 motherboard This board does not appear to have hardware raid. You may just have BIOS RAID. Which linux should have detected. Barry -- ___ users mailing list

raid issues with gigabyte mobo

2025-03-02 Thread Amadeus WM via users
I just built a brand new pc with a Gigabyte B650 Gaming AX v2 motherboard with 2xnvme drives and 2xssd drives. In UEFI I configured two raid-1 arrays, one for nvme and one for ssd. Then booted from the Fedora 41 live image and started the installation and I expected that the installer would see