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Questions tagged [fakeraid]

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How do I differentiate "fake RAID" from real RAID?

The Ubuntu wiki page on FakeRaid says the following: [A] number of hardware products ... claim to be IDE or SATA RAID controllers... Virtually none of these are true hardware RAID controllers. Instead, they are simply multi-channel disk…
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Getting files out of XFS with 64kb block size

I've been on a mission to recover files from one of my 2 perfectly working, non-corrupted, non-encrypted NAS drives that used to be in RAID 1. The NAS was Patriot Javelin S4, which (as I found from my research) uses Promise Fasttrack fake raid…
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How to Monitor an Adaptec/Intel ICH10R RAID Controller (any SNMP notification options?)

SuperMicro's Super Doctor III is the software I was looking for. It is SuperMicro's equivalent of IBM's ServerGuide or Dell's OpenManage. Unfortunately, while it supports hardware monitoring and SNMP or Email alerts it does not support running on…
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Install Oracle Linux 6.4 on HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 server

installation does not detect the raid 1 logical drive created from ACU. the installation shows the two 2T disks, and after the installation is complete, I can not boot up to the system. I have been searching, and I am looking for the right…
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Using software-RAID vs "firmware"-RAID (a.k.a. FakeRAID)

We recently bought a tower server on which I want to install Debian. I thought the device had hardware RAID, as I could see a BIOS screen. As it turns out, it's still a software RAID. When I configure the RAID drives through that firmware, I can…
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Expand RAID array on HP Dynamic Smart Array B320i controller

I have a few HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 servers that are equipped with the Dynamic Smart Array B320i RAID controller. One particular system was shipped with a single disk installed instead of a pair of drives needed for a RAID 1 mirror. I asked for…
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Compiling kernel version >= 2.6.34 on CentOS 5: RAID set "ddf1_foo" was not activated?

I want to mount a Ceph FS on some CentOS 5 servers. Since the ceph-fuse failed with below errors: # ceph-fuse --no-fuse-big-writes -m 192.168.2.15:6789 /mnt/ceph/ ceph-fuse[7528]: starting ceph client ceph-fuse[7528]: starting fuse fuse: unknown…
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Intel Matrix Storage RAID and Linux mdadm

I've got a 3-disk RAID 5 array that was set up under Windows that I'd like to get working in Linux using mdadm. I've done some basic fakeraid stuff before, but this was set up with the Intel Matrix Storage utility in the BIOS, and it's not working…
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Booting from firmware-based PCI RAID controller in SeaBIOS

I had a server running Windows 2003 that resided on a RAID5 array formed by Promise FastTrak SX4100, which I thought was hardware-based because of its dedicated processor and buffer memory and its ability to boot DOS and Windows. As it turns out,…
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CentOS 6.5 not booting after installation on Hp ML310e Gen8

I have experience with Installation and configuration of Windows Server system. I am trying to install CentOS 6.5 on the above mentioned HP box and the installation process goes on without a hitch. Once it is done and reboots, it does not see the…
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Oracle Enterprise Linux installation can't see local disks on HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8

I am installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 on HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8. There are 2 300GB disks and they are configured in RAID 1 from ACU. During the installation installator can not see local hard drive (Which i mentioned). There are external hard…
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Software Raid vs Fake Raid on Intel RSTe

I'm using Intel RSTe - a fake raid. Intel suggests mdraid (which is software raid utility). Intel does not like dmraid (which is a fake raid utility). (Correct me if I'm wrong) Intel says it augmented mdraid to support metadata from RSTe. Now my…
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Cant find my harddrives in ubuntu installation?

I was trying to setup a Microserver with two 1TB harddrives as a software RAID. Somehow it didnt work and now ubuntu 14.04 is not starting. My problem is that I dont see the drives anymore when I go through the installation process again! On boot I…
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Kernel panic after boot Centos 6.5 HP DL320 B120i HPVSA

Im working with a new HPDL320 micro server (gen8-2) with a HP Dynamic array B120i My problem is after the setup. I provided the DiskDrive to the installer and everything is fine. at first i used kick start version but now im having the same issue…
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LSI SMC2108 hardware to HBA

I have SMC2108 (LSI controller) hardware controller, which I want to replace with LSI SAS 9207-4i4e (it's HBA - fakeraid). Can I switch the controllers and to access my data (even with readonly). I know that SMC2108 keeps the metadata in the DDF…
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