hello all,
I just setup my ESX3i on my desktop dell optiplex 745.
Installed ESX3i on the USB directly with this manual:
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Boot%203i%20from%20USB%20flash%20drive.html
modified the oem.tgz as described here so my local ICH8 SATA controller is recognized.
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php
when i check now with lspci -v, i can see the controller is mounted as vmhba1, but in VI3 i can't see it.
Rescaned, restarted again, set Sata to legacy and back, nothing helped
Do I need to format the drive manually as vmfs so it's recognized by esx?
Any idea?
Thanks
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If you run fdisk -l do you see the HD?
no, I did not see the disk with fdisk -l
let me paste you the output of both, lspci -v and fdisk -l
LSPCI -v
00:00.00 Host bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation
Class 0600: 8086:2990
00:01.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation
Class 0604: 8086:2991
00:26.00 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:2834
00:26.01 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:2835
00:26.07 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:283a
00:28.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation
Class 0604: 8086:283f
00:28.04 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation
Class 0604: 8086:2847
00:29.00 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:2830
00:29.01 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:2831
00:29.02 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:2832
00:29.07 USB Controller Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c03: 8086:2836
00:30.00 PCI bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge
Class 0604: 8086:244e
00:31.00 ISA bridge Bridge: Intel Corporation
Class 0601: 8086:2810
00:31.02 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0101: 8086:2820
00:31.03 SMBus Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0c05: 8086:283e
00:31.05 IDE interface Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation
Class 0101: 8086:2825
01:00.00 VGA compatible controller Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc
Class 0300: 1002:9598
01:00.01 : ATI Technologies Inc
Class 0403: 1002:aa20
02:00.00 : Creative Labs
Class 0403: 1102:000b
03:00.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet
Class 0200: 14e4:167a
04:00.00 Ethernet controller Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169
Class 0200: 10ec:8169
I have two onboard SATA controllers. One with 4 ports and one with 2 ports.
Both controllers have hdd connected.
~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:0: 1027 MB, 1027416576 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 979 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:1 5 750 763904 5 Extended
/dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
/dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:5 5 52 49136 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:6 53 100 49136 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:7 101 210 112624 fc VMKcore
/dev/disks/vmhba33:0:0:8 211 750 552944 6 FAT16
what we see here is the USB key only.
Is it correct that I have added the pciid 8086:2820 and 8086:2825 into the oem.tgz?
Take a look at this thread and what Scottish Captain mentions about the mode of the controller - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1084357#1084357.
great,
thanks for the link, it solved my problem.
I have copied the oem.tgz to the usb drive and now I can see my sata Disks
The modified ata_piix driver made it.
Thanks for the help! :smileylaugh: