What is an MD array?

Asked by cmnorton

I have an Acer Travelmate 630 laptop running 7.04 Feisty. From looking at the bios settings, I have one IDE hard-drive and a CD ROM drive. Yet, the MD raid service is running. What is MD RAI; why is the service running; how can I be sure other than the BIOS that I do or do not have a RAID; and what would happen if I shut off the MD RAID service?

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Best David Portwood (dzportwood) said :
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It is safe to stop the MDADM service, its only used for creating software RAID volumes.

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cmnorton (octopusgrabbus) said :
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Thank you. I stopped the service; rebooted; and everything came up fine.