FC3 install on Adaptec 2410SA

[Frank]

One month prior to FC3 being released I installed FC2 on a system with 
an Adaptec 2410SA Serial ATA RAID controller and a four drive array.  As 
I recall, it installed easily without a driver disk.  When FC3 came out 
I did a fresh install on the same system, and it installed easily and 
ran well.

Last week I bought another system with the same controller, but with a 
different motherboard.  I needed to move the working array to the new 
system, where the boot would begin and then crash with a message about 
sleeping in the wrong context or something like that.  I decided to 
install cleanly.

To make a long story short I now have two systems, one with an Asus 
K8N-E and one with an Asus A8V motherboard, both with freshly 
initialized 4 drive arrays, and I can't install AMD64 FC3 to either one 
of them.  In each case the install proceeds to the partitioning stage.  
It appears that the moment FC3 attempts to partition the array the 
controller card's alarm sounds and FC3 reports that it could not read 
the disk.  On reboot, both controllers report the array status as being 
optimal., and all format/initialize/array creation operations have gone 
just fine.

I have tried using the adaptec CD to make a driver disk.  Fedora is not 
a lsited option - I tried ES3 and the resulting disk was not accepted by 
FC3 (no driver found).  I looked at choosing simply "Redhat" but then 
AMD64 was not an option.

One of these systems is exactly the same as what worked well over the 
last couple months on FC2 and FC3, except that it now has larger drives 
in it.  The motherboard in the other one (The A8V) seems to be a popular 
choice for Linux.  I don't see any messages suggesting that FC3 has a 
problem with either motherboard.

So why does FC3 suddenly seem to be incompatible with the Adaptec 2410SA 
controllers that worked in the past for me and seem to be working for 
other people as well?

I'm out of things to try at this point.  The shiny new computers that I 
was so looking forward to (finally replacing Windows with Linux on my 
home network) are very expensive paperweights until I solve this.  Any 
help will be gratefully received.

(I haven't played with any boot options.  I don't know what the options 
are or when to use them)

Frank.