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    Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Hi

    I am trying to dual boot Lubuntu on my new Dell 15R SE along with Windows 7. It has a 32GB cache drive that uses Intel Smart Response Technology. I managed to partition the drive using GParted on a live usb drive. Windows 7 is installed and I have Intel Smart Response Technology set up. For Intel Smart Response Technology to work it needs a RAID drive. In the BIOS the SATA Operation is: 'Intel Smart Response Technology'. The other options are 'ATA' and 'AHCI'. I have read that ATA will work but I would like to keep the Smart Response working. I have tried the alternate installation disc and it prompted me that it detected a RAID drive but did not show the drive at the partitioning step. Any ideas of how to get it working?

    Thanks

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Just a thought, can I change the SATA Operation to ATA, install ubuntu and then change back to Intel Smart Response Technology? Will the grub installation be affected? Will Windows or Ubuntu be affected?

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Actually AHCI is a better choice than ATA, but if it doesn't recognize the disk(s) correctly with ISRT, when you change it back I doubt it will recognize the ubuntu installation you made.

    On the other hand, the alternate installer (or the live cd too) does seem to detect that there is a type of raid, but I guess it doesn't have the drivers to understand it properly. It's not even a raid in the true meaning of the word because it combines smaller disk with a larger one, not identical disks.

    These machines seem to create issues for dual boot, I'm not sure what can you do about it.
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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Quote Originally Posted by darkod View Post
    Actually AHCI is a better choice than ATA, but if it doesn't recognize the disk(s) correctly with ISRT, when you change it back I doubt it will recognize the ubuntu installation you made.

    On the other hand, the alternate installer (or the live cd too) does seem to detect that there is a type of raid, but I guess it doesn't have the drivers to understand it properly. It's not even a raid in the true meaning of the word because it combines smaller disk with a larger one, not identical disks.

    These machines seem to create issues for dual boot, I'm not sure what can you do about it.
    Okay, thanks for your answer. I guess I will have to wait a while for this to get supported. The live USB will have to do for now.

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    I had the same issue. I recently bought a Lenovo ideapad u410, it has a 500GB HDD and a 32GB SSD. Intel Smart Response and Intel Rapid Storage are pre installed and configured for Windows7.

    I have made it to install Ubuntu on it, but now my Windows is f#@!ed Up =)
    I removed the dmraid package within the Live-System and voila, Ubuntu recognizes the HDD. But I didn't make it that GRUB2 comes up at start. I put GRUB2 at MBR of my HDD and at the start of my ext4 partition, but only the windows bootmanager comes up. Because of this pre configured Intel stuff Windows boots from the SSD, when I tried to install GRUB2 on the SSD I got various errors. (Also Gparted shows the SSD as "unallocated"). I then knew nothing of the RAID Configuration.

    I started to immerse myself in the Intel Smart Respone and Intel Rapid Storage topic.
    It looks like dmraid is legacy (Just google "Intel Rapid Storage Technology Dualboot" and you'll find a pdf called Intel RST in Linux* )

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    I have found a solution.

    To get the Ubuntu live installer (normal version) to detect the drive, in the 'Try Ubuntu before Installing' option, open a terminal and try the commands on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ID#Load_dmraid. I think all that is needed is
    # modprobe dm_mod
    # dmraid -ay
    # ls -la /dev/mapper/
    Then you can open the installer in the Live session and install.

    You must also go back to Windows and open the 'Intel Rapid Storage Technology' application and go to the 'Accelerate' Tab. Disable acceleration (this will not lose any data but will automatically back up some data if you are using maximised option). Then you should be able to restart into GRUB. You may need to try reinstalling GRUB (Google it). If the GRUB screen is present then you can go back to Windows and re-enable acceleration in 'Intel Rapid Storage Technology'.

    Hope this works for everyone else.

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Quote Originally Posted by godgough View Post
    I have found a solution.

    To get the Ubuntu live installer (normal version) to detect the drive, in the 'Try Ubuntu before Installing' option, open a terminal and try the commands on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ID#Load_dmraid. I think all that is needed is
    # modprobe dm_mod
    # dmraid -ay
    # ls -la /dev/mapper/
    Then you can open the installer in the Live session and install.

    You must also go back to Windows and open the 'Intel Rapid Storage Technology' application and go to the 'Accelerate' Tab. Disable acceleration (this will not lose any data but will automatically back up some data if you are using maximised option). Then you should be able to restart into GRUB. You may need to try reinstalling GRUB (Google it). If the GRUB screen is present then you can go back to Windows and re-enable acceleration in 'Intel Rapid Storage Technology'.

    Hope this works for everyone else.
    I tried something similar.

    Firstly I Disabled Acceleration from Intel RST
    Secondly on BIOS i changed RAID to AHCI

    Windows is still booting up correctly.

    Then when I go to install Ubuntu through the Live CD after doing
    apt-get remove dmraid

    I installed
    Code:
    / on /dev/sda1 which is 8GB and
    /home on /dev/sda2 which is 22 GB
    And I tried installing the bootloader on
    /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2 differently. After all 3 attempts GRUB doesn't show up.

    Any pointers on what is wrong.

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    The commands to remove the RAID meta-data on a drive:

    Presence1960 on remove old raid setting from HD
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1325650
    sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
    sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb
    Also check BIOS for raid settings
    More discusion:
    http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showthr...38#post9274738

    If you installed grub to partitions, I hope you did not install to the Windows partition. Windows NTFS partition have to have NTFS boot signatures in them. But you can use testdisk to restore from a backup if only installed once.

    May be best to run BootInfo and post link:
    Boot Repair -Also handles LVM, GPT and separate /boot.:
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
    You can repair many boot issues with this or 'Create BootInfo' report (Other Options) & post the link it creates, so we can see your exact configuration.
    UEFI boot install & repair info - Regularly Updated :
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295
    Please use Thread Tools above first post to change to [Solved] when/if answered completely.

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Quote Originally Posted by oldfred View Post
    The commands to remove the RAID meta-data on a drive:

    Presence1960 on remove old raid setting from HD
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1325650
    sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
    sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb
    Also check BIOS for raid settings
    More discusion:
    http://wwww.ubuntuforums.org/showthr...38#post9274738

    If you installed grub to partitions, I hope you did not install to the Windows partition. Windows NTFS partition have to have NTFS boot signatures in them. But you can use testdisk to restore from a backup if only installed once.

    May be best to run BootInfo and post link:
    Boot Repair -Also handles LVM, GPT and separate /boot.:
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
    You can repair many boot issues with this or 'Create BootInfo' report (Other Options) & post the link it creates, so we can see your exact configuration.
    I got it finally working.

    The Boot repair tool did the trick
    Here is the output from it : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1111467/

    Now my machine successfully dual boots.

    I think when I said I had tried installing grub on the other partitions it had failed because of UFI.

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    Re: Installer not recognizing drive (Intel Smart Response Technology)

    Short summary on how I achieved dual booting my system. Thanks everyone

    Firstly I Disabled Acceleration from Intel RST
    Secondly on BIOS I changed RAID to AHCI

    used the live CD to boot into ubuntu and on terminal ran
    sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
    sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb


    I then installed
    / on /dev/sda1 which is 8GB and
    /home on /dev/sda2 which is 22 GB

    Then I followed the instructions here to install grub on /dev/sda

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

    Now I can dual boot successfully

    I will blog in detail of these steps in a weeks time on http://vthacker.in

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