David Marrs
February 19th, 2007, 10:54 AM
Hi guys,
I'm trying to install 6.10 on a dell 9150 but when I come to partition the hard drive, none is detected. Actually, more accurately, 2 discs are detected, but both are described as empty and containing no partitions. This is clearly wrong as at least one disc contains windows and data.
Windows Explorer shows 2 drives, C:\ and U:\. C:\ contains all data and U:\ appears at first to be empty, but actually used space shows that it contains exactly the same amount of data as C:\ does (~50GB). After looking in the device manager, it looks like I've got a raid system set up here.
Device manager shows:
SCSI and RAID controllers - Intel(R) 80821GR/GH SATA RAID Controller
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers - Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
Disk Drives - ARRAY
I presume here that "ARRAY" refers to a raid array. I have no idea why my computer would need such a thing, but there you are.
After googling I found https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto . It looks like I've got some homework of my own to do but some pointers would be appreciated. Specifically, how can I find out more about my raid setup and precisely how it operates? I'm a bit of a raid newb here.
And does anyone have any general advice on what it's like to install to a raid system? Is Ubuntu the best system for this job or are other distros ahead? I don't need a pointnclick interface, but I do need to be able to have Linux installed and running within a weekend because this is a work/production machine and time = money. I would happily disable all this raid stuff and just use one disc for windows and the other for Linux if it means dual booting is possible. We're reaching a point at work where moving to Linux for web development is becoming important, but we still need access to Windows for other (mostly design related) areas.
Thanks for any advice.
I'm trying to install 6.10 on a dell 9150 but when I come to partition the hard drive, none is detected. Actually, more accurately, 2 discs are detected, but both are described as empty and containing no partitions. This is clearly wrong as at least one disc contains windows and data.
Windows Explorer shows 2 drives, C:\ and U:\. C:\ contains all data and U:\ appears at first to be empty, but actually used space shows that it contains exactly the same amount of data as C:\ does (~50GB). After looking in the device manager, it looks like I've got a raid system set up here.
Device manager shows:
SCSI and RAID controllers - Intel(R) 80821GR/GH SATA RAID Controller
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers - Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
Disk Drives - ARRAY
I presume here that "ARRAY" refers to a raid array. I have no idea why my computer would need such a thing, but there you are.
After googling I found https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto . It looks like I've got some homework of my own to do but some pointers would be appreciated. Specifically, how can I find out more about my raid setup and precisely how it operates? I'm a bit of a raid newb here.
And does anyone have any general advice on what it's like to install to a raid system? Is Ubuntu the best system for this job or are other distros ahead? I don't need a pointnclick interface, but I do need to be able to have Linux installed and running within a weekend because this is a work/production machine and time = money. I would happily disable all this raid stuff and just use one disc for windows and the other for Linux if it means dual booting is possible. We're reaching a point at work where moving to Linux for web development is becoming important, but we still need access to Windows for other (mostly design related) areas.
Thanks for any advice.