Re: How could one move from dmraid/fakeRAID to software RAID?
It is not as simple a finding an off button. Yes, you have to get into the raid bios to 'turn off' the raid. That bios has already placed meta data on your disks marking them as raid. To remove them you have to explicitly erase them (sudo dmraid -r -E /dev/sdx - for each raid member disk). Then uninstall dmraid. Although the removal of dmraid in itself will stop it from discovering the raid drives I also recommend the erasure of the meta data to prevent its reappearance in a future install when you have probably forgotten it is still there to cause you problems.
The fakeraid is only there to permit access to raid drives used by Windows. However I have seen a lot of negative comment about it I don't feel are merited. I have found it reasonably reliable if you know what you are doing. If you read much on this forum you will see that use of software raid is no assurance that your life will be any easier.
12.10 Quantal w/grub2/Mint13 installed on raid0, Gigabyte AMD MB, AMD 64x4 CPUs at 3.2GHz, 16 GB ram, HD7770 ATI video, dual boot win7 on 64gb ssd and win8 on 1Tb SATA raid. 13.04 installed on raid0 and ssd
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