HW RAID on x2250 with Solaris 10?

I'm a long-term, experienced Solaris admin (on SPARC) who is trying out a few x86 x2250 boxes right now. Each has 2 SATA drives that I am attempting to use HW RAID 1 with. I set the drives to "RAID" mode in the BIOS, used the firmware RAID config utility to create a RAID 1 mirror pair with them, rebooted, checked the BIOS to see the new "INTEL RAID" device in the boot order, but can't get Solaris to see the (virtual) drive!
The Solaris installer (booted from local DVD on the x2250) can't see it, format can't see it, fdisk can't see it. I've searched a fair bit on line and there's also no explicit mention of support or lack of support for the x2250's RAID controller on Solaris 10 x86.
Has anyone managed to use HW RAID on this server before?
Help!
...Steve van der Burg

I have the same problem Steve. I try to create mirror 1 with on board controller and then, install Solaris 10/08 for x86 and I receive the message: No disk found !!!
I try to broke the mirror and then install Solaris, but the message is the same.
solaris not recognize the SATA disks of x2250 server.
I find the drivers in the tools cd, but I can't find it.
Help please !!!
Daniel

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