On 2016-12-20 05:24, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 12/19/2016 8:41 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2016-12-19 05:22, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I am confused about why ASUS is using a RAID controller setting in the BIOS for my laptop... I thought RAID was used with multiple drives to build in redundancy and recover-ability. But my laptop only has 2 drives, an SSD drive and a 7200RPM disk drive. So why is a RAID configuration being used? Is there something about SSD drives that I am missing? From my Google research it appears this is common on lots of different laptops that come with Windows pre-installed on systems with an SSD drive, but I can't find an explanation as to why.... I may have one.
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Thanks so much (I think) Carlos for taking the time and going to the trouble of finding all this information about RAID controllers. It is a lot of information to grok but it helps to understand a bit more about why a RAID controller is being used.
But it appears your install is not using SRT, so I don't understand it. Unless Windows has been reinstalled :-?
I think it would be so much easier if I can figure out how to get rid of using this RAID controller for Windows 10 and simply reinstall Windows 10 under AHCI! I probably will have better luck asking ASUS for help or getting a Windows 10 reinstallation disk from them than I would in getting Linux/openSuSE to support a dual boot environment where a RAID controller for Windows 10 is being used..
See Andrei response about that.
I am still trying to grok how to best proceed and don't yet understand what to do about setting up GRUB to boot up Linux and yet retain the ability to boot up Windows also....
Well, that part is not that complicated. I hope. Your system is using UEFI. -- Cheers/Saludos Carlos E. R. (testing openSUSE Leap 42.2, at Minas-Anor) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org