Re: Vaio Z RAID 0

[Dan <ganchya@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought a Vaio Z. It has 2 hard drives of 128 and they are setup with
> a fake RAID 0 " Intel Rapid Storage Technology " . That makes a RAID 0
> of 256Gb.
>
> I have no experience with RAIDs and I am trying to install wheezy but
> also to keep windows.
>
> I would like to keep the windows system. I made some space and I am
> able to go through the installation process but when I try to
> partition the hard drive I get:
>
> Failed to create a file system
> The ext4 file system creation in partition #6 of RAID0 device #126 failed
>
> I created the partitions... but I also got that message. Any ideas? It
> seems that the installer was able to create the partitions but not to
> create the filesystem.
>
> I read in Julien Danjou's blog that the Intel Rapid Storage
> Technology's RAID does not work properly with Linux.
> http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/sony-vaio-SVZ13-linux
>
> I would like to keep windows, but Julien suggested to wipe the whole
> hard drive. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Dan

Hi again,

Any ideas why I couldn't install linux in this fakeRAID? " Intel Rapid
Storage Technology " .
I think it is possible to disable the fakeRAID in the Bios.  Probably
If I am not able to install linux with Windows using this fakeRAID. I
will just erase windows and install only Linux (Debian) using a
software RAID 0. I think that should be quite straightforward with the
Debian installer.

Thanks,
Dan