Unable to read partition information from disk

[mikebo]

Greetings -

I have HP DL385s with HP A8003A (Emulex LPe11002) 4Gb HBAs, hooked up to a Sun StorageTek 3510 (2Gb) array via a QLogic 4Gb switch. I'm running ESX 3.0.1 build 32039.

When I try to add storage, I can see LUN vmhba0:0:0, but when I try to add one I get the message "Unable to read partition information from this disk".

I read that I should replace 4Gb drivers with 2Gb drivers here:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1560391

but I could not find the Emulex 7.1.14 2Gb drivers anywhere on the install CD. I read in these forums that the lpfcdd_7xx drivers were no longer available and were superceded by ESX-1541239. So, I downloaded and installed this update.

The driver package was updated from

VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-lpfcdd-v732-7.3.2.1vmw-32039

to

VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-lpfcdd-v732-7.3.2.2_1vmw-42368

.

But I still have the same error... Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Many thanks!

mikebo

[mikebo]

HELP! I'm still unable to read this partition table from within ESX server.

I can see and manipulate the disk from the Service Console.

I can even create a Linux partition, mkfs and mount the partition!

If I can do all this from the service console, why can't the ESX server vmkernel read the partition table?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

mikebo

\[root@vmware1 disks]# ls -l /vmfs/devices/disks

total 1359616608

lrwx------ 1 root root 58 May 9 09:33 vmhba0:0:0:0 -> vml.0200000000600c0ff00000000000135204f320e80053746f724564

lrwx------ 1 root root 58 May 9 09:33 vmhba0:0:3:0 -> vml.0200030000600c0ff00000000000135245d3151c0053746f724564

lrwx------ 1 root root 58 May 9 09:33 vmhba0:0:6:0 -> vml.0200060000600c0ff00000000000135264344cd70053746f724564

-rwx------ 1 root root 73372631040 May 9 09:46 vmhba4:0:0:0

-rwx------ 1 root root 439624925184 May 9 09:46 vml.0200000000600c0ff00000000000135204f320e80053746f724564

-rwx------ 1 root root 439624925184 May 9 09:46 vml.0200030000600c0ff00000000000135245d3151c0053746f724564

-rwx------ 1 root root 439624925184 May 9 09:46 vml.0200060000600c0ff00000000000135264344cd70053746f724564

\[root@vmware1 disks]# vmkpcidivy -q vmhba_devs

vmhba0:0:0 /dev/sda

vmhba0:0:3 /dev/sdb

vmhba0:0:6 /dev/sdc

vmhba4:0:0 /dev/cciss/c0d0

\[root@vmware1 disks]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 439.6 GB, 439624925184 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53448 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 1 53448 429321028+ 83 Linux

\[root@vmware1 disks]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

\[root@vmware1 disks]# df -m /dev/sda1

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda1 412680 33 391685 1% /mnt