SCSI is expensive but incredibly reliable and the cost of scsi has gone down considerably over the years.

The problem with scsi is once you start talking about large capacity drives ... get out your wallet.

But you have to consider that scsi drives are build for the datacenter and not the home lab.

So quit crying and get out your wallet if you don't like treading through the mud

As Devzero mentioned the settings you are running look to be in the Intel ICHR7 chipset. I believe there is a jumper set on the right hand side of the MB adjacent the RAM slots. The manual will specify what one to set it to. You can use either the Intel Intel Matrix Storage or the LSI Megaraid Storage Manager. You can't run both. Once you change this over you will need to recreate the raid again and reintall ESX.

How do you find this board for performance? I am buying the P5BV/SAS board (Almost identical) very shortly for an ISCSI target for HA and VMotion from my two other boxes.

Cheers

Riddle me this Batman...Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

I'm dinking around with a Sun U40, (older one, not M2). Trying to install ESX 3.5 Update 1, onto its SATA disks.

It's exhibiting odd behavior under ESX.

For some reason the boot disk will NOT show up in /proc/partitions. The other disks they show up fine, which tells me its not a PCI ID mis-match. (The relevant PCI ID's 0054, and 0055 are in sata_nv.xml by default, no subtituion tricks required)

Tried reducing the drives down to just two disks, and doesn't matter which ports they're plugged into. The boot disk doesn't show up, the other one does.

Obviously this makes mounting root rather difficult during boot as the kernel doesn't find the UUID anywhere.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks,

David