Hello!
I have installed ESXi on a IDE drive and now I try to get my FastTrak S150 SX4 Controler to work. It is a PCI-Card that has 256 MB DIMM RAM and 4 Drives attched to it.
During boot it says "FastTrak S150 SX4
http://... BIOS 2.0.70.24"
First I have followed the steps on
http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php:
The output of "lspci -v" is as follows:
...
03:11.00 RAID bus controller Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.
Class 0104: 105a:6622
...
This is my "pci.ids":
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6269 PDC20271 (FastTrak TX2000)
105a 6269 FastTrak TX2/TX2000
6622 20622 (FastTrak S150 TX4)
105a 6622 FastTrak S150 TX4
6621 PDC20621 SX4000 4 Channel IDE RAID Controller
6629 PDC20619 (FastTrak TX4000)
...
and this is my "simple.map"
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105a:6269 0000:0000 storage ide
105a:6622 0000:0000 storage sata_promise
105a:6629 0000:0000 storage sata_promise
...
When I check "/var/log/messages" after the ESXi has booted I get the following:
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Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.226 cpu0:2699)Loading module sata_promise ...
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.226 cpu0:2699)Mod: 936: Starting load for module: sata_promise R/O length: 0xb000 R/W length: 0x4000 Md5sum: b39926f143fba2aced9f1f4ddd8455fa
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)Mod: 1373: Module sata_promise: initFunc: 0x9e3124 text: 0x9e2000 data: 0x2963220 bss: 0x29635e0 (writeable align 32)
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)Mod: 1389: modLoaderHeap avail before: 7797096
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)Initial heap size : 1048576,max heap size: 8388608
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)<7>libata version 1.20 loaded.
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: driver sata_promise is looking for devices
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:02.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Announcing 00:02.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1d.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1d.1
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1d.2
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1d.3
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1d.7
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1f.1
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1f.3
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Announcing 00:1f.3
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 00:1f.5
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Announcing 00:1f.5
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 02:01.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 03:05.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Announcing 03:05.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Trying 03:0b.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: Announcing 03:0b.0
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)PCI: driver sata_promise claimed 0 device
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)ALERT: Mod: 1413: Initialization for sata_promise failed with -19.
Dec 10 20:51:27 vmkernel: 0:00:03:31.382 cpu0:2699)sata_promise failed to load with status 0, -19, 0xbad0001.
...
It seems that the drivers loads and then tries to find a card but it finds none even though there is one...
Does anybody has any idea?!?!
Any help is greatly appreciated!
