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I had a similar problem once - turned out the card was faulty<br />
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Can you try to connect the disks to a simple SCSI controller and remove the RAID controller. Not a solution per se but will prove if its your card
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I had a similar problem once - turned out the card was faulty

Can you try to connect the disks to a simple SCSI controller and remove the RAID controller. Not a solution per se but will prove if its your card

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I have tested the system with installs of Ubuntu and Red Hat with no problem So i think the the card should be ok.
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I have tested the system with installs of Ubuntu and Red Hat with no problem So i think the the card should be ok.

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Ok I will give it a try. Thanks
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Post back and let us know how you get on. Fingers crossed
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Post back and let us know how you get on. Fingers crossed

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Turned out it didnt like that card, probally the firmware, as the card is on the HCL for ESX. Thanks
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Turned out it didnt like that card, probally the firmware, as the card is on the HCL for ESX. Thanks

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I am tryng to install ESX 3.5 on a server with an internal single channal raid controller. But it keeps halting at the ESX driver install. Is there something I need to configure or something I may be missing any help would be greatly appreciated. &nbsp;I have tried esx noapi but it is not working.
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I am tryng to install ESX 3.5 on a server with an internal single channal raid controller. But it keeps halting at the ESX driver install. Is there something I need to configure or something I may be missing any help would be greatly appreciated.  I have tried esx noapi but it is not working.

ESX 3.5 Install Halting at Loading Block Driver mptscsi_2xx

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