SAS Raid Controller Driver

[Jonathan Marshall]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Fedora Core 4 on a recently purchased Dell Poweredge 840.
The client is insisting on the OS version.

I can't get the Fedora installation to see the RAID array and the
installation just aborts.
Below the hardware details are the different drivers I've tried.

Hardware Details:
Dell SAS 5 Host Bus Apapter Bios
MPTBIOS-6.12.02.00 (2006.12.22)

LSI Logic SAS1068-IR ver 0.10.49

I've tried the following drive images:
The driver on the Dell discs

mptlinux-3.02.83.12-5-SAS-5ir
mptlinux-4.00.00.01-4dkms_ir
as well as
mptlinux-2.06.48.02-2-SAS-5ir
from ftp.dell.com

I've also tried driver images from linux.dell.com which are for Red
Hat Enterprise
03.01-1-rhel30-all
03.07-1-rhel30-all
03.07-1-rhel40-all

I create the driver disk with dd if=(image name) of=/dev/fd0

I start the Fedora installation with "linux dd". Only the driver image from the
archive 03.07-1-rhel30-all loads without a complaint but it still
can't see the raid array and the installation fails.

Is it possible to get this hardware to work with this version of Fedora?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jonathan