I have a Supermicro SYS-5018R-MR with a X10SRi-F mainboard. I've configured the onboard RAID adapter (via CTRL+I during boot) to use two drives in bays 4 and 5 for a RAID1 configuration. The volume is reported as "normal" and the volume (I've named it ssd_vol) does appear in the BIOS boot config as a boot option.
When I boot into Ubuntu 14.04 however, I see only the two individual RAID member drives and my USB boot drive. There is no device entry for ssd_vol or any additional device suggesting a RAID device.
I've looked over the user manual an the only information is really just a cursory walk-thorough of the BIOS menu options.
What am I missing?
Best Answer
That motherboard has 'fake-RAID' that requires a combination of BIOS/UEFI config AND OS drivers. It's based on Intel's C612 chipset which provides 'RSTe 4.0' RAID capabilities, so look on Supermicro and/or Intel's support/download site and download the RAID/RSTe drivers and you should be good - I know you version of Linux is supported anyway.