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Installation of esxi 3.5 on dl140 g2 with adaptec 2420sa raid card

I'm trying to install esxi 3.5 update 4 on an old hp dl 140 g2 server as a test. I know that the server hardware is not supported by default, so I bought a new raid card, the adaptec 2420sa. I've configured two 80gb disks as a raid 1 array on the adaptac raid card, I also made the array bootable.

When I try to install esxi 3.5 from cd, it gives me the error: Unable to find a supported device to write the image to, so seems like the raid card is not supported. I've did a search on the forum and looks like others managed to get this card working. Am I missing out on something? Can anyone point me in some direction?

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kbvict
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Yes i've seen that topic, they managed to get it working with the same hardware, so I think it should be possible for me too.

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