From: Dominic R. <dl...@ed...> - 2009-10-22 15:26:08
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Bruce Smith wrote: > I've got a bunch of old IDE drives. Is there any way to make them work, or do I have to go SATA? > I did a dry-run setting up VMware ESXi 4.0 on my Foxconn Winfast 6150M2MA m/board (AMD X2 4600+ CPU, 2GB, Nvidia GeForce 6150 chipset). It installed fine, I could connect to it remotely with vSphere Client, and it presented all local disks (SATA *and IDE*, there was no SCSI on this machine) in the list of LUNs as candidates for data storage. VMDirectPath (which can make PCI cards available to hosted VMs) was not supported [I think because this motherboard does not support IOMMU (aka AMD-Vi)]. But without so much as a 'by your leave' it modified the partition tables for all local disks (even though the only disk allocated for ESXi data storage was the one on which ESXi was installed) - which caused me some problems afterwards. Something to watch out for! I didn't install any VMs, and the hardware is now back to its prior configuration. Dominic |