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 linux (and windows) it has been poorly supported and > always needed an add-on driver and that add-on driver sometimes breaks > on updates. > > And this fakeraid would also prevent you from moving these disks to > another motherboard (not of the same type). > > Avoid using it and use linux md software raid. > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM Amadeus WM via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> 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 installation and I expected that >> the installer would see just 2 drive - one for each raid array. >> However, it detected all 4 drives individually. >> >> Then I stopped the installation and in a shell I ran lsblk -f and >> indeed, >> the 4 disks were treated as separate. >> >> One post on google mentioned that hardware raid requires some drivers >> that exist for windows, but linux only supports some raid controllers. >> That's surprising to me, because I've had raid on various machines over >> the years without the issue - maybe because they were all Dell. >> >> Of course, I can do software raid, but does anyone have any experience >> with hardware raid on Fedora with a Gigabyte motherboard? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send >> an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List >> Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List >> Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Do not reply to spam, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Software it is. I didn't know about fakeraid and how it works. It did seem a little fast - like instant - when I created the arrays, compared to what I remember from creating the arrays on my old Dell Precision machine, but I attributed that to the disk speed. Thanks! -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
