I have a new (used)Dell Poweredge 1550 server with 2 scsi drives (dual 1ghz
w/ 2048MB) that I'm attempting to install CentOs 4 onto
and am having problems getting the darn thing to recognize the hard drives.
(it's worth noting that it's running RAID 0 and the RAID bios recognizes
both drives as being in "optimal" state).  I start the
installation process and all is going well until it autoprobes. All other
hardware is found
except for the hard drives. The install subsequently fails because there the
drives can't be found.

I have been googling my brain out over the last week and this seems to be an
issue with installing linux
on this particular server model. (surrounding the megaraid driver and have
tried many of the
things out there to no avail.

To see what I have been trying checkout this mailing list entry:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html

Any advice that anyone can give is appreciated!

P.S. I have tried to install Debian, Mandrake and FC6 to no avail.


PJ