OK, found a solution.  I put the drive on the SATA0 connector temporarily and installed the OS.  I then let all of the XP-64 required updates be installed.  I did NOT use the copy of XP64SP2 which can be found on the Microsoft site and other locations.  For some reason this did not work.  After all the updates had taken place I also installed the non-required DOTNET updates. bringing the OS up to full DOTNET4 plus other security patches since DOTNET4.  This finally permitted me to install all the device drivers found on the Dell web site for this box.  I then installed the recovery console and got both to boot correctly.  Then I moved the drive over to the SAS Host Bus Adapter and it booted correctly, but the recovery console crashed every time I tried to boot it.  Then, somewhere, I found a file constaining particular drivers for the SAS6i.  I got it from Dell, but it was very hard to find.  See [URL] Scroll down the page and under XP cab files you will see tthe one named  ftp://ftp.dell.com/sysman/T7500-XP-A00-R261998.CAB  This seems to contain all the necessary drivers and you can extract them with Winzip from the CAB file.  The most important can be found under the   T7500/XP/X64/SAS RAID/R193680.  In there you will find the device drivers needed when you strike F6 during the recovery console load time.  Particularly, look for LSI_SAS.CAT and the related INF files.  T Now if I can just figure out how to permanently install the necessary driver files so that I don't have to use F6 and a floppy each time, I will really be happy.  BTW, This is a screaming machine with dual Xeon processors and 24 GB of RAM.   Hope this post helps some other guy. Vern
I have a t7500 with the Dell SAS 6 Host Bus Adapter.  When I try to install XP-64 on a drive connected to SAS connector 0, the XP install crashes with 0x00000007.  Is there some additional driver that I need to install? How do I get by this?
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