Hi,
As far as I know you DO need the activation key to be supported (but note I havent tried on a system that doesnt have it installed), so its looks like the HCL could be missing the '1' from these systems. You could try creating a RAID1 set using the ROMBs hostraid, you might have more luck that way.
Even if you could get it to work without the activation key + cache your performance is going to be terrible. The ROMB card is just a plain SAS controller with basic hostraid. You really need the key. cache and a BBU to get the performance youd need to run VMs off. (part numbers here ftp://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/sl_config_guide_1_30.pdf)
If you can't get the right parts remove the ROMB and add any card from the IO hcl to the system. Should work without probs (The SRCSAS18E definatly works).
Hope that helps,
Steve
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