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Click to view joonny's profile Novice 8 posts since
Aug 31, 2008

Hi Thingy,

I found I could get followings from AU, and can you recommend me the one for my system ? I have SATA HDD.

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Thanks


Click to view epg's profile Lurker 2 posts since
May 30, 2006
hi, can you verify if you got esx-i running on a promise sata 300 tx2 plus? thanks!
Click to view A.M.Schneider's profile Lurker 2 posts since
May 15, 2005

Hello Joonny,

is it working with this controller?

I have the same Motherbord with AMD Athlon X2 4850e CPU and I try to install ESX 3.5.0 on it.

It would be fine to know somebody got it working!

Thank You very mouch

Andi

Click to view Jaev's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Jan 12, 2008

Hi Thingy

Thank you for a nice guide, I followed it, and was able to install esxi on my Asus Crosshair motherboard. I am using the internal NIC´s and SATA controller. I used your oem.tgz file for both the install disc and the dd image file.

I have one problem. When a guest os comes under very heavy load (i use it for bittorrent on a 100mbit connection) it looses connection to the datastore, and I have to reboot the host to get the datastore back. It happens after approx 20 min of heavy load. I tried with XP, Ubuntu and Red Hat, so I think it might be a hardware problem. When the guest os is not under load, I dont seem to have any problems at all.

I was wondering if you have experienced something similar with the Asus Crosshair motherboard.

Do you set any special bios settings to make it work ? I have updated the bios to the newest version, but no change, heavy load disconnects the datastore after a while.

Do you have any idea what the problem might be ?

Thanks in advance

Jaev

Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru 8,943 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
Have you installed VMware Tools in your VM? Also what's the specific Crosshair MB that you're using?
Click to view joonny's profile Novice 8 posts since
Aug 31, 2008

Yes, it is working.

Thanks everyone.

Click to view Jaev's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Jan 12, 2008

I installed ESXi using another motherboard and that solved my problem. I think the MCP55 sata controller has problems with ESXi. The new motherboard I am using has a MCP51 controller and it works great.


Click to view Stan007's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Feb 22, 2009

Hi

Will your fix work with ATI SB700/SB800 controller and sata Disc

Stan007


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