June 16, 201610 yr I am running unRAID in ESXi 6 update 2. i5-6600, Z710A SLI Plus motherboard. I had the M1015 flashed to p20 (newest IT mode firmware) with no LSI BIOS. Problem: No drives are available in unRAID. The drives are available in the LSI BIOS (flashed one on the card to check). The drives are available in ESXi when the card is not set for passthrough. The drives are available in a Windows 10 VM with the card passed to the vm. This means the cables I have are correct. The card works. What I've tried: 1. I followed the instructions in the LSI Controller FW update post (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767). I flashed the LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11).zip No luck same as the p20 firmware i had on the card. 2. I've tried swapping the PCI-E slot the card is installed in, no luck. 3. I've passed through a old jmicron pci-e sata card to unraid and it could see those hard drives. 4. Changed the passthrough order so the LSI card would have a differnet pcie id (whatever those are called). 5. Tried the 6.2 beta version and that didn't change anything. 6. Tried booting from plop boot manager and from the prepared vmdk. I am all out of things to try. Anyone have any more places I can look?
June 16, 201610 yr Do the drives show up in unRAID if you boot it to bare metal? If so (to me at least) sounds like an incompatibility with unRAID and your ESXi version.
June 16, 201610 yr Author I'm almost certain I had some hard drives run to the M1015 before I switched to a VM. Its been a couple weeks, so I'm not 100% sure, but like 90% it worked on bare metal. I guess I can try an older version of ESXi...
June 16, 201610 yr I'm almost certain I had some hard drives run to the M1015 before I switched to a VM. Its been a couple weeks, so I'm not 100% sure, but like 90% it worked on bare metal. I guess I can try an older version of ESXi... That would be my next suggestion. If it works with an older version of ESXi then I would bet on a weird incompatibility with unRAID, your version of ESXi and LSI controllers since you said another controller saw the drives in the unRAID VM.
June 17, 201610 yr Have you seen this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=49481.msg474673#msg474673
June 17, 201610 yr Author Have you seen this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=49481.msg474673#msg474673 I haven't seen that post. My google fu is apparently lacking. That looks like a promising solution. Going to try that tonight.
June 17, 201610 yr Author Have you seen this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=49481.msg474673#msg474673 I haven't seen that post. My google fu is apparently lacking. That looks like a promising solution. Going to try that tonight. Yup, that fixed it. As a tip to future peoples, the line you need to add (in red in the post) is to /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg. The underlined red text hides that there is an underscore, so the red text is mpt3sas.msix_disable=1. Thanks for the help!
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