I've been working on this for a few days and I can't figure out what the problem is. I have Debian in a VM on ESX 3.0.1 with all the patches to date, but I can't get it to see the disk when it is attached to the LSI controller. I've upgraded this VM from 2.5.x, but if I create a new VM, the same thing happens. I'm using Debian Lenny and I create a second HDD and attach it to the second SCSI bus so that I can use Buslogic for the boot partition and LSI for the test drive. I can see that the modules are loading, everything looks good, but no drives appear. What's worse is I installed Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn and it loads it no problem. I downloaded the Ubuntu kernel source and a vanilla kernel of the same version and did a diff on the module source and there was no difference. I am using a custom compiled vanilla kernel, but the stock kernels do the same thing. This is making me think that it is not a kernel issue. The reason that I need to get LSI to work is that this is our back-up machine and it is dying on writing out to the tape drives, probably because Buslogic is not as optimized as LSI logic is.
After unloading and reloading all the mpt* modules I get this in dmesg:
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.04
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.04
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities=\{Initiator}
scsi2 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=00000000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16
It looks like it finds the controller ok, but it doesn't find the disks.
Any ideas to try?
