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Fake RAID 0 - Data recovery under Linux - 2 HDDs with Windows 10

I suspect someone at the company decided to do a partition span, i.e.: (taken a look from Linux Debian 9) Drive #1: Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of ...
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Disks have become spare with fake Raid. Is there any change to remount the volume?

I used the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (fake RAID) with 8 disks (6 disks for RAID 5 and 2 hot spares). ~# mdadm --detail-platform Platform : Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Version :...
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Is there a way to determine what RAID-type I am using?

I've recently set up RAID 0 with two disks. I've done that via my Asus Prime X370 Pro's UEFI. Today I stumbled upon the terms "Software RAID", "Hardware RAID" and "Fake RAID". Most of the sources ...
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Is it possible to recover / convert / mount fakeraid image files? (TL;DR - have fakeraid images, want to convert them to mdadm images)

My Promise NAS NS4300N recently died (PSU or motherboard failure, probably the former as it has trouble spinning up the disks). I've managed to dd(1) the drives (4 500GB drives in a RAID5 ...
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FakeRAID in Ubuntu

I'm trying to help a friend pull data off a messed up Intel RAID through Ubuntu but not sure how to proceed. Here's the info: (it's a 3 drive RAID5 that should use sda, sdb, sdc) fdisk -l Disk /dev/...
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How to use fakeraid/dmraid with gpt?

So I recently set up Intel RST RAID on my Gigabyte z77‑d3h with UEFI firmware. The UEFI system recognizes the new RAID array instead of two disk and load bootx64.efi from the array. The RAID array is ...
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Is there a way to boot from a GUID Partition Table on a Intel FakeRaid (IMSM) RAID1 configuration?

I have a Intel H170 based Asus H170 PLUS Motherboard that supports Intel FakeRAID. Attached are two identical Seagate 1TB harddisks on which I want to install ArchLinux 2015-12-01. The UEFI BIOS on ...
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mdadm not reassembling array on boot

I'm currently using arch on my Asus UX51VZ laptop for almost a month. I have a fakeraid setup with two 256GB SSDs using mdadm. I was using this configuration without any problems. However after I've ...
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How to create bootable CentOS7 USB drive with FakeRAID drivers?

I have a few older servers that only have one available USB port, and no CD-ROM drives. I have successfully created a bootable thumb drive using dd to copy the CentOS-7-DVD isos to thumb drives, but I ...
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Is a raid array transparent?

I am attempting to create a RAID 5 array of 4 disks using an on board SATA RAID controller of a ASUS H87 mini ITX motherboard. The OS I am attempting to install is UBUNTU 14.04.1. I have successfully ...
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Windows Dynamic Disks vs BIOS FakeRAID

I have two 3TB disks in a Windows 7 Dynamic Disk Mirror array (effectively, software RAID1). Apart from being tied to the O/S (I can't mount the array in Linux, for example) - is there any difference ...
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Dell Precision T3500 - single SATA disk as RAID

Hopefully a quick question - my workstation has been configured with a single SATA hard disk, but the BIOS has the SATA controller configured as RAID, so essentially the disk is being exposed to ...
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One of two RAID 1s is not recognized in Ubuntu 13.04

I have a 256GB SSD (Ubuntu/Win8), and two 1TB drives in RAID 1. The problem is that I just recently added another two drives that are 4TB in RAID 1 but they aren't detected in Ubuntu as one drive but ...
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How do I install Solaris on a "fake RAID" a.k.a. "AHCI+RAID" SATA/SAS-Controller?

The Solaris installation system (text installer, live installer) does not recognise the AHCI controller, although the controller is explicitly listed as supported on the official HCL? How do I install ...
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Intel Matrix Storage controller black screen after reformatting the disk

I have a Dell T3400 PC with an Intel Matrix Storage controller and two disks which were in a RAID-1 configuration. I took out one of the disks and installed Linux on the other disk, breaking the RAID ...
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