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Subject: i386/103624: Problem installing on Dell Powervault 745N
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>Number:         103624
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Problem installing on Dell Powervault 745N
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 25 16:10:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Collins
>Release:        6.1
>Organization:
Xi Software Ltd
>Environment:
N/a
>Description:
I am trying to install FreeBSD on a customer's machine which has a Dell Powervault 745N.

He has some funny SCSI RAID controller.

He only wants to use it as a mail server but I can't get past it trying unsuccessfully to find the disk drives.

Do you know anything about this?

I've tried various versions of Linux too with similar lack of success.

>How-To-Repeat:
As described
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: