Hi, Partmann

please help me

Although I validated SATA using gosata.sh, after rebooting ESX, the following error messages will be displayed. and shown "Activating swap FAIL" in booting process.

(ML115 G5 and ESX3.5update2)

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VMNIX: (0)scsi; device set offline - command error recovery failed: host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0

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but, swap-partition working correctly.

thank you.

Hi rpartman

Re: SATA Support Clear as Mud!?# cat /proc/swaps

Filename                        Type            Size    Used    Priority

/dev/sda3                       partition       554232  0       -1

Re: SATA Support Clear as Mud!?#

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Re: SATA Support Clear as Mud!?# mount

/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw)

none on /proc type proc (rw)

none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)

/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)

none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

/dev/sda5 on /var/log type ext3 (rw)

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Re: SATA Support Clear as Mud!?# cat /etc/fstab

UUID=a2106a3e-54e3-491e-ac79-d301b770af79 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

UUID=f74004d5-53c3-4efc-ba30-7097df1fca98 /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2

none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0

none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0

UUID=e8e41456-9965-497d-8c45-811101e62f4f /var/log                ext3    defaults        1 2

UUID=f918c64a-266c-4f73-b107-1e082ad6cbb0 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

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Re: SATA Support Clear as Mud!?# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux

/dev/sda2            14       650   5116702+  83  Linux

/dev/sda3           651       719    554242+  82  Linux swap

/dev/sda4           720     19457 150512985    5  Extended

/dev/sda5           720       973   2040223+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdc1   *         1     60801 488384001   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdg: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hdg1   *         1     60801 488384001   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hde1   *         1     60801 488383968+  fb  Unknown

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux

/dev/hda2            14       650   5116702+  83  Linux

/dev/hda3           651       719    554242+  82  Linux swap

/dev/hda4           720     19457 150512985    5  Extended

/dev/hda5           720       973   2040223+  83  Linux

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160GB SATA-HDD x 1 (/ /boot /var/log)

500GB SATA-HDD x 2 vmfs

Hi

This problem is displayed each time. It was not displayed when only ESX was installed. It is displayed after executing gosata.sh.

The result was the same although I repeated this.

hi

Many thanks! It works correctly.

I modified /etc/fstab.

UUID=  -

> /dev/sdaX

thank you.

Hi Reinhard,

For HP DC7800 CMT:

Just solved an issue using onboard SATA-controller with ESXi 3.5.

By using the SATA ports 4 and 5 (Orange and light-blue) the disks are discovered as sdx-devices.

Hope someone will find this helpfull.

Regards,

Kenneth

Hi All,

I Just thought I would share another system that works out of the box for ESX 3.5. As I have mentioned in earlier posts I purchased an ASUS P5BV-SAS Mother board, I was using this as a file server and iSCSI target under Windows 2003 but decided to try it as an ESX server.

The Install works from an IDE CD Drive and every HDD drive was seen in ESX and can be used to run VM's from. The only limitation I found was the Intel ICH7R RAID setup. This type of RAID is commonly referred to as fake RAID and this means it requires OS drivers to facilitate the RAID. As a result ESX just sees the disks as JBOD despite being set as a mirror in the RAID BIOS.

The good news for this board is the LSI1068 SAS controller is a dedicated hardware RAID device and ESX will see the disks attached to it as s RAIDed set as they are set up in the BIOS. ASUS also have a RAID mode called RAID 1E. This is in essence a RAID 10 set up but can have upto 8 disks in the set. It also performs very well.

All in all the MB was about $400.00 Aust and I feel well worth the money. It is a low end server board that doesn't require (but can use) FB DIMM's and can run the CORE2/QUAD range of CPU's as well as XEON's. It also has the Broadcom GB NIC's and these are also seen by ESX 3.5

I hope this helps if someone is looking for a board that does it all direct from the box.

Cheers

HI

Reinhard

Did You successfully installed ESX3.0 on HP XW8200 ?

Thank You

I have a 306m xSeries server. but.. i'm not sure how to disable IDE from BIOS with out disabling the CDROM...

How did you disable the ide controllers?

Will this work with out trying the script?