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Problem when installing Ubuntu 10.04 dtop 64bit on a system with the AMD SB850 chip in SATA RAID mode

Asked by Magnus Gruvén

The problem arises when trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit desktop or server (haven't tried 32 bit)
The following hardware is used:
An Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboard (which has the rather new AMD SB850 chipset) with an AMD Phenom II X4 925 and 8GB DDR3 RAM (4 modules paired HyperX Kingston 1600 CL9) with 2 WD (6400AAKS ) SATA2 hard disks in RAID 1 (mirror) mode. The installer recognises the RAID and the disk size is correct but it can't create the file system. The installer reports a failure (without error code) and the installation can't proceed.

Is there a fix available yet for this problem?

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#1

If you are using the BIOS RAID option (also known as Fake Raid), that is not supported, and may or may not work.
This is something you should read in order to decide if you really want to do fake raid:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

But I have Ubuntu installed on software RAID, which in my view is a better choice. It is supported, it is stable and it works.

I installed it following this document:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID

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