I’ve recently upgraded my system to dual core 2.5ghz, 2gb DDR2, 512MB GeForce 9400 and dual 500gb drives - for doing RAID on using the onboard RAID. Got it all set up, and apparently functioning fine.
I’m intending on doing a dual-boot with windows and opensuse, so I installed windows xp first, so as to avoid overwriting the opensuse mbr. Windows appears to work fine with the RAID (RAID 1), and the intel hardware manager thing said that the volume was functioning correctly.
So this morning I stuck the OpenSuSE 11 dvd in to install. I was quite confused by the partitioning proposal, which seemed to see both a raid volume and two 500gb hard drives, and try to create partitions on both. I went to the expert partitioning, and muddled around trying to downsize the windows partition and create several linux partitions in the freed up space, but the installer had 2 non existant windows partitions as well as C:/, and it had put them all as being on the hard drives, not part of the RAID! I tried for a while to figure it out, but eventually aborted the install to reboot to windows and look for advice on the web.
But now when I have rebooted, the Intel Matrix Device Manager says that both hard drives are functioning as normal, but no RAID array is present. I rebooted and checked that the RAID in the BIOS was enabled, and the RAID setup after BIOS was correct. It was, except that the Intel RAID manager said the array was “Initialising”, instead of “Ready” or something it used to say.
Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? Has the raid array become corrupted or something? Any advice for setting up OpenSuSE with the RAID and getting it to work?
Thanks,
Scott