Problem installing 5.1-relase on machine with SCSI and SX6000

[Kristian Larsson]

Hi!

I've got an old Intergraph which has been running as my fileserver för two
years, so far with Red Hat Linux 7.3
Due to several problems with it (sleeping zombie processes which were
impossible to kill amongst others) I've decided to switch to FreeBSD. Since
it's a SMP machine (dual 400Mhz) I thought I'd be running a 5.x release
since the SMP support has improved with it.
The system features 9 disks altogether. Three of them connected to a LSI
53c8xx SCSI controller (dont actually remember the two last digits, but I
beleive it to be of little relevance, I will find out if necessary) and the
other six are connected to a Promise SX6000 card. The Promise SX6000 is
configured for providing a single large volume (RAID 5). One of the SCSI
disks are meant for the "system" and the IDE disks for "storage".
My problem is this; when I try to install all I get in fdisk is the pst0
disk (aka Promise card with it's attached disks) the SCSI disks don't even
show up.
And since they were intended for the system I am stranded. I have never had
this kind of a problem so I really have no idea where to start. Help is very
much appreciated, and I will try and provide any information left out here.

I've tried searching the mailing archives as well as google, but I'm even
having trouble formulating my question and I imagine the number of people
with my set up is rather small.
Please cc directly to my mail < kristian at zarknet dot tk > since I am not
subscribed to this list.

Regards,
Kristian