This question has NOT been answered by the following due to them saying to permanently disabling these features

• Installing Ubuntu Alongside a Pre-Installed Windows with UEFI


• Install ubuntu on windows 8 with intel smart response


• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

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

sudo hwinfo --storage

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