jiminald Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Hi, I'm trying to get unRAiD working with ESXi 5.1 and 2 PCI SATA cards with JMB363 chips on. I've used lspci to see if the card is recognised and it is, but the kernel module isn't getting started. I've tested this by booting the machine natively and all the drives show, but when I boot it in ESXi, I get nothing. The card is definitely being passed through. I've attached both syslog files. Motherboard: Intel DQ35JO - http://www.intel.com/p/en_UK/support/highlights/dsktpboards/dq35jo Processor: Intel Quad Q9400 - http://ark.intel.com/products/35365/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9400-6M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB PCIe SATA Cards: Startech PEXSATA22i - http://uk.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/SATA-Cards/2-Port-PCI-Express-Internal-SATA-Controller-Card~PEXSATA22I Drives: All Western Digital of various sizes Thanks unRaid_Native.txt unRaid_ESXi.txt Quote Link to comment
generalz Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 are you locked in to 5.1? on my server 5.1 would not pass through stuff correctly. 5.0 worked, 5.5 works. Quote Link to comment
jiminald Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 I did upgrade to 5.5, but it threw the Purple Screen Of Death on me as soon as I tried to boot a VM, so I rolled it back. I can try 5.5 again to see if I get any different results. If 5.0 worked for you, I may install 5.0 first. Quote Link to comment
generalz Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 do you have stuff passed through to other VMs? Quote Link to comment
jiminald Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 I have the exact same card being passed through to a FreeNas I was trying out and I can see all the drives on there fine. I've passed that card through to my unRAID VM but no drives show. Quote Link to comment
generalz Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 I dont think going back will help then. that's odd it works native, in other vms but not unraid vm Quote Link to comment
generalz Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Just out of curiosity how are you booting unraid in vmware? Quote Link to comment
jiminald Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 unRAID on a SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB. I did have issues booting it, so I found instructions in using plpbtin.iso (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/full.html) and this essentially fronts the booting process. Quote Link to comment
generalz Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 ahh was just making sure you were not using a virtual drive with old bzroot bzimage to get it booted. Quote Link to comment
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