Manjaro installation on oczssdpx-1rvd0180

I’m trying to install Manjaro on an ssd drive (oczssdpx-1rvd0180), but my drive shows up as two 83.84 GiB drives, with the first (/dev/sdd) having partitions on that drive, and the second (/dev/sde) nothing.

if I write sudo dmraid -a y the partitions appear in Dolphin (displayed as dm-1 and dm-2), the path for example is /run/media/manjaro/BAA212D3A21293CB/. Below is the result of the command.

RAID set "sil_acaeahbifeca" was activated
RAID set "sil_acaeahbifecap1" was activated
RAID set "sil_acaeahbifecap2" was activated

But the installer still does not have a full disk

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdd: 83,85 GiB, 90028302336 bytes, 175836528 sectors
Disk model: OCZ-REVODRIVE   
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x237287e0

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdd1  *         2048 350598640 350596593 167,2G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdd2       350599168 351664127   1064960   520M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE


Disk /dev/sde: 83,85 GiB, 90028302336 bytes, 175836528 sectors
Disk model: OCZ-REVODRIVE   
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifeca: 167,69 GiB, 180054392832 bytes, 351668736 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x237287e0

Device                         Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1 *         2048 350598640 350596593 167,2G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2      350599168 351664127   1064960   520M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE


Disk /dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1: 167,18 GiB, 179505455616 bytes, 350596593 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x73736572

Device                               Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1-part1      1920221984 3736432267 1816210284   866G 72 unknown
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1-part2      1936028192 3889681299 1953653108 931,6G 6c unknown
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1-part3               0          0          0     0B  0 Empty
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1-part4        27722122   27722568        447 223,5K  0 Empty

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.


Disk /dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2: 520 MiB, 545259520 bytes, 1064960 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x73736572

Device                               Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2-part1      1920221984 3736432267 1816210284   866G 72 unknown
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2-part2      1936028192 3889681299 1953653108 931,6G 6c unknown
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2-part3               0          0          0     0B  0 Empty
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2-part4        27722122   27722568        447 223,5K  0 Empty

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.

blkid

/dev/sde: TYPE="silicon_medley_raid_member"
/dev/sda1: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="AAF0005BF000305D" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="c42ca7b2-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL_FATBOOT="NO_LABEL" LABEL="EFI" UUID="C420-8D12" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="c42ca7
b2-02"
/dev/sdb1: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="A8660B12660AE0C4" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="c67
686e2-60a5-4334-b568-358a88fc34bc"
/dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap1: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="BAA212D3A21293CB" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/mapper/sil_acaeahbifecap2: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="3C30BC5A30BC1CB8" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sdc2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL_FATBOOT="MISO_EFI" LABEL="MISO_EFI" UUID="3F87-ED74" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="
vfat"
/dev/sdc1: BLOCK_SIZE="2048" UUID="2022-07-21-09-20-14-00" LABEL="MANJARO_KDE_2135" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/loop3: TYPE="squashfs"

What needs to be done to install Manjaro on such a drive?

Hello @Phizilion and welcome :wink:

Unfortunately the normal installer calamares cannot handle such a partitioning. You need to switch to AHCI at the UEFI Settings, wipe the SSD and reinstall everything without fakeRAID or LDM.

If you need RAID support, then have a look at

  • LVM (similar to Windows LDM)
  • MDADM (like fakeRAID, but not firmware assisted, in fact only the chunk sync is part of the firmware)

However it possible to use fakeRaid here for installation, but then you need to do a manual Installation.

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Which type of RAID do I have?

Since software RAID is implemented by the user, the type of RAID is easily known to the user.

However, discerning between FakeRAID and true hardware RAID can be more difficult. As stated, manufacturers often incorrectly distinguish these two types of RAID and false advertising is always possible. The best solution in this instance is to run the lspci command and looking through the output to find the RAID controller. Then do a search to see what information can be located about the RAID controller. Hardware RAID controllers appear in this list, but FakeRAID implementations do not. Also, true hardware RAID controllers are often rather expensive, so if someone customized the system, then it is very likely that choosing a hardware RAID setup made a very noticeable change in the computer’s price.

lspci | grep 'RAID bus controller'
03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

based on the documentation, I have Hardware RAID
and, in UEFI settings, the AHCI mode is already set

does it change anything?

Please be more precise what your goal is.

RAID Setup or AHCI Setup?

If Windows uses LDM instead of BASIC partitions, then there is no way to shrink these partitions on Linux.

:notebook: CREATE A BACKUP OF THE DATA

Then wipe all magic strings/signatures (delete everything)…

sudo wipefs --all --force /dev/sde
sudo wipefs --all --force /dev/sdd