help with SCSI passthrough

[fugrat]

I have VMWorkstation 7 on a Vista host and am trying to get my 2003 Server VM to see my SCSI tape drive as Vista does not support tape backup. The tape drive is on ID2 on an Adaptec 29160N card. When the system boots I can see the tape drive on ID2, but I am having trouble working out whch passthrough SCSI ID i should give the card. I have an NForce 4 Motherboard with SATA Raid enabled and the 2 IDE ports are also enabled so I calculated that the SCSI card should have ID of 4 (2xSATA ports + 2x IDE ports) which are enumerated first. Whenever I boot my VM I get a message that SCSI1:2 will start disconnected.

The relevant section of my vmx is below

scsi1:2.present = "TRUE"

scsi1:2.deviceType = "scsi-passthru"

scsi1:2.fileName = "scsi4:2"

checkpoint.vmState = ""

scsi1.present = "TRUE"

scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

scsi1.pciSlotNumber = "37"

How can I get my VM to see the tape drive?

[AWo]

Doesn't it show you the tape device when you add a generic device in the hardware editor of the guest?

AWo

VCP 3 & 4

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[PaulSvirin]

Maybe this can be helpful, although this is for VmS 1.0: http://communities.vmware.com/message/811684

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[fugrat]

I managed to get this sorted out. Vista saw the tape drive as a generic SCSI disk drive. I disabled the device in the Vista host and the VM then saw it as a tape drive. Thanks for the suggestions guys