Intel smart connect technology linux

Howto run Ubuntu with UEFI and Intel Smart Response Technology

How can I get Ubuntu to boot with UEFI and Intel Smart Response Technology (SRT) enabled? Do I have to install Ubuntu with them turned on? if so how? or can I enable these features after I’ve installed Ubuntu and still have them function?

I’m not concerned with keeping windows and am wanting a linux only machine, so I do not have the dual-boot issues that complicate matters. I would like the benefits of SSD caching to apply to the entire file system and not just the OS portions or I would just disable SRT and install linux on to the SSD.

A bit of searching around the net reveals plenty of articles like Installing Ubuntu Alongside a Pre-Installed Windows with UEFI that tell how to disable these features. That is not what I want. I’ve also found info that suggests that Intel supports mdadm and not dmraid, but I don’t know if that means I can install in AHCI mode and switch after the install, or if I need to prepare a custom installer somehow. Or for that matter if that even applies to SRT, as intel have too many similar acronyms that are closely related.

Symptoms

I’ve tried the 12.04.2 LTS and I’m currently trying to use 13.04 ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso
MD5 : 8d72e2db7e72e13813731eab37a14d26

The messages I receive and options I choose are:

Secure boot not enabled Try Ubuntu without Installing error: failure reading sector 0x60100 from 'cd0' error: you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue. 

Then it goes back to the screen where I can select «Try Ubuntu without installing».

This behavior is the same with 12.04.2 LTS and 13.04 LiveCD. Though sometimes the sector it cannot read is 0x0. This same DVD boots fine in UEFI + AHCI or Legacy BIOS modes.

Hardware Info

I have the Dell Inspiron 15R special edition dw510268au with a 32GB mSATA cache and 1TB 5400rpm hdd.

While in Legacy BIOS mode the output of

29: PCI 1f.2: 0104 RAID bus controller [Created at pci.318] Unique ID: w7Y8.SQqymDbIGqA SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1f.2 Hardware Class: storage Model: "Intel Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x282a "Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x0572 Revision: 0x04 Driver: "ahci" Driver Modules: "ahci" I/O Ports: 0x4088-0x408f (rw) I/O Ports: 0x4094-0x4097 (rw) I/O Ports: 0x4080-0x4087 (rw) I/O Ports: 0x4090-0x4093 (rw) I/O Ports: 0x4060-0x407f (rw) Memory Range: 0xc1617000-0xc16177ff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 42 (22089 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d0000282Asv00001028sd00000572bc01sc04i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: ahci is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ahci" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

What about using the whole 32GB SSD as the swap partition? wouldn’t it enchance the memory access speed?.

that would only help on a system that used a reasonable amount of swap, and even then, would only speed things up once things had been read off the hdd and then pushed out to virtual memory.

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I’m a little late to the party, but I thought my experience might be useful.

I have a Dell Precision M4800 which came with a 32GB mSATA SSD originally and now has a 256GB mSATA SSD. I have my full sized Samsung 830 Pro 256GB in the 2.5″ bay and a 1TB disk in the optical bay via an adapter. All are SATA 6G. I originally installed Win8 and Debian on the 2.5″ SATA SSD, and used the complete 32GB mSATA to cache the 1TB HDD, since it is fairly slow and I keep a lot of VMware VMs there. SRT worked in both Linux and Windows since it’s a hardware/firmware operation, I verified that the 1TB disk was accelerated even while I was in Linux. The 32GB SSD just disappeared entirely when SRT was enabled. Very nicely done, Intel.

Recently I switched out the 32GB for a 256GB. It was very simple and painless. I booted Windows, disabled Smart Response, let it settle, then shut down and made the physical switch. After booting Windows again, I enabled SRT again, and let it use the maximum 64GB. I told SRT to let the other 192GB be available for use, planning to move my Debian install there, and expand the Windows partition, giving everything more room.

After SRT populated the cache and I’d rebooted once or twice, I booted my Debian install. The 1TB disk is even faster than before, it’s great having a big SSD cache for my bulk data disk, as it’s 5400rpm and quite sluggish otherwise. I fired up gparted to partition the leftover mSATA SSD and problems began. It seems that gparted can see the entire disk area, including the cache, so it noted some «problems» with my GPT layout and offered to fix them for me. I let it, then realized what had happened and rebooted to Windows. SRT offline! SSD cache broken! D’oh!

Booted Debian, fully zero’ed the SSD, booted Windows, set up SRT over again (thinking that the GPT ‘errors’ were a stale GPT from before enabling SRT). Same results, gparted thinks my SSD is mispartitioned. I’m now going to make a partition in the unused space while in Windows and see if I can just edit/replace that without breaking SRT.

All this aside, OP is single-booting, so using a more Linux-specific solution is probably a good idea. You can put your base install on the SSD with home directories and bulky data on the HDD, and that should give you a good balance of speed and simplicity.

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Intel Smart Connect Technology 5.0.10.2907 PC device updater for Windows

Automatically keeps important data up-to-date on your device, even when it’s in sleep mode or on standby.

Small and single-feature utility that wakes the PC up from sleep or standby mode for a short period for keeping certain applications updated. Intel Smart Connect Technology 5.0 is a freeware offline updater app and driver, developed by Intel for Windows. The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We’ve also created some screenshots of Intel Smart Connect Technology to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this offline updating program.

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