I have been through some adventure trying to make a ibm serveraid m1015 work.
Tought it was possible without flashing the card but in the end it was the only thing i could do.
In the process of trying i put debian testing(ext4) on the disk.
Now I tried to install omv on that disk.
Got messages about installing to an "unclean" disk but nothing i could do about it.
I got no visual confirmation omv handled this properly => formating the disk.
Also the partinioning did not work => impossible to do it manualy.
Actualy its some kind of loop and in the end all one can do is to install on this "unclean" disk.
Few years ago we builded a debian based distro too and also found out that once you start on the installer weird things can happen