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maorui
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Cannot install to IDE hard drive?

I have a SuperMicro system. The mother board is X5DPE BIOS V6.0, and has two Maxtor 40GB IDE hard drives installed. But I cannot install ESXi 3.5 U3 on it. The error message is "Unable to find a supported device to write ESX image to".

From tty1, I can see the Linux system has recognized Intel ICH chipset, and also found the two IDE drives. So what's the problem?

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Dave_Mishchenko
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maorui
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I cannot access this site...

Not ICH 7, but ICH3-S.

X5DPE-G2: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7501/X5DPE-G2.cfm

Intel® E7501 chipset

MCH + ICH3-S + P64H2

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You'll need to get the PCI id for the controller and compare it with this list - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Hardware_support.php. Should the controller be driver compatible with the rest of the ICH family, then you might be able to install with a custom oem.tgz file. See also on the www.vm-help.com site about that and other storage controllers that should work for you.

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maorui
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I got a similar document from another website. And I've successfully installed ESXi. It works very well. Thx!

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