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Ruu1989
November 7th, 2008, 03:08 PM
If this has been asked before, please slap me and send me in the right direction.

I have an MSI Neo2 motherboard, with 4 MatrixRaid ports. I can turn the raid on or off in the bios, with option for IDE, RAID, or AHCI. I have 3 disks which I wish to use in a RAID0 on which I will install my system.

Questions:
Should I create the RAID using the Matrix Storage Manager bios, or will Xubuntu create and manage the RAID itself?

If I *dont* RAID the disks, should I still have RAID selected in BIOS.


This is confusing me slightly. Any tutorials of walkthrough from start (bios) to end (welcome screen + xfce login) would be great.

~Ruu

Other info; PC has 5 drives, 1TB on Marvell port, 500GB on Intel port 4, and a 320 and two 80's on the other intel port. (Its the 320 and the two 80's that i wish to use to create a 220(approx)GB system disk.)

Ruu1989
November 7th, 2008, 09:35 PM
(apologies for the bump. i want to get this sorted asap and i wont do on the 5th or so pag

:KS

Ruu1989
November 7th, 2008, 11:56 PM
Ok. My most gracious apologies for this triple post, but the issue has now been solved with the help of THIS HOWTO here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461

~Ruu