My Esxi 7.0 U3 is showing a lot of warnings from vmw_ahci. I use SATA disks in an HPE server without RAID enabled.
2022-04-28T12:30:43.887Z cpu0:262600)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<0> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:30:43.900Z cpu0:262600)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<0> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:30:43.914Z cpu0:262600)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<0> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:31:46.146Z cpu10:262601)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<1> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:31:46.160Z cpu10:262601)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<1> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:31:46.174Z cpu10:262601)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<1> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:31:46.234Z cpu0:262600)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<0> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:31:46.248Z cpu0:262600)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<0> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!
2022-04-28T12:31:46.261Z cpu0:262600)WARNING: vmw_ahci[000000170]:<0> ExecutePioCommands:ERROR: PIO command failed due to task file error!