FC3 install on Adaptec 2410SA

[Frank]

I have a little new information.  Windows XP will create a partition and 
begin copying files.  I didn't complete this installation, but it seemed 
to be working fine.

FC3 still sets off the on-card alarm as soon as it gets to partitioning 
(manual or automatic).  I can only assume that FC3 is doing something 
that the controller doesn't like.  Maybe some boot parameter will solve 
this?  I've tried everything I know how to try, including many things 
that I didn't think would help, just in case.  Since Fedora Core is not 
officially supported by Adaptec, I'm really at the mercy of this group.  
I don't want to go back to Windows.

Frank.

I wrote:

> One month prior to FC3 being released I installed FC2 on a system with 
> an Adaptec 2410SA Serial ATA RAID controller and a four drive array.  
> As I recall, it installed easily without a driver disk.  When FC3 came 
> out I did a fresh install on the same system, and it installed easily 
> and ran well.
>
> Last week I bought another system with the same controller, but with a 
> different motherboard.  I needed to move the working array to the new 
> system, where the boot would begin and then crash with a message about 
> sleeping in the wrong context or something like that.  I decided to 
> install cleanly.
>
> To make a long story short I now have two systems, one with an Asus 
> K8N-E and one with an Asus A8V motherboard, both with freshly 
> initialized 4 drive arrays, and I can't install AMD64 FC3 to either 
> one of them.  In each case the install proceeds to the partitioning 
> stage.  It appears that the moment FC3 attempts to partition the array 
> the controller card's alarm sounds and FC3 reports that it could not 
> read the disk.  On reboot, both controllers report the array status as 
> being optimal., and all format/initialize/array creation operations 
> have gone just fine.
>
> I have tried using the adaptec CD to make a driver disk.  Fedora is 
> not a lsited option - I tried ES3 and the resulting disk was not 
> accepted by FC3 (no driver found).  I looked at choosing simply 
> "Redhat" but then AMD64 was not an option.
>
> One of these systems is exactly the same as what worked well over the 
> last couple months on FC2 and FC3, except that it now has larger 
> drives in it.  The motherboard in the other one (The A8V) seems to be 
> a popular choice for Linux.  I don't see any messages suggesting that 
> FC3 has a problem with either motherboard.
>
> So why does FC3 suddenly seem to be incompatible with the Adaptec 
> 2410SA controllers that worked in the past for me and seem to be 
> working for other people as well?
>
> I'm out of things to try at this point.  The shiny new computers that 
> I was so looking forward to (finally replacing Windows with Linux on 
> my home network) are very expensive paperweights until I solve this.  
> Any help will be gratefully received.
>
> (I haven't played with any boot options.  I don't know what the 
> options are or when to use them)
>
> Frank.