From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sat Mar 12 11:33:38 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA47ACDC44 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrenr@freebsd.org) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7AEDD09 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrenr@freebsd.org) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3066220AA5 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 06:33:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 12 Mar 2016 06:33:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=JwqJFyiGssCWLO/fW4SVCC9LgK0=; b=hUkvf t6ZmRKbRnA3xdAtlnLN/up7M2nMHwqsTlRxNKecCOjmk6pVXX/EIsB6nqtjVHaHS OQITR1ehE68/LlKc4V/NOnKJOl53oHY8dbVgPZOz+oIbTCKWiT0XMVhrYw4aJyUU kj7wgVduTRp+7c5psRTi9wlfInE4sT5jVtmwJE= X-Sasl-enc: o3pwRMf0rfRnKyvFctRWdqNc48E/Ivf/kPcoR/XzkYBB 1457782410 Received: from [192.168.1.31] (unknown [203.206.138.26]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 747E8C00013 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 06:33:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <56E3FE6C.2080401@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:33:00 +1100 From: Darren Reed User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RDM device from ESX - can't get disk paramters? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:33:38 -0000 Dear All, Oh host A I had a set of disks mapped with ESX as RDMs to a FreeBSD 9.3 VM. No problem, works fine. The goal is to move that VM to a new host, so I migrate the VM over and then take the hard drives out of the old host and put them in the new one. However when FreeBSD boots it doesn't let me use the hard drives - they probe ok through the boot sequence: da3: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da3: Serial Number xxx da3: 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit) da3: 0MB (0 512 byte sectors: 0H 0S/T 0C) da3: quirks=0x8<4K> ... da5 at mpt1 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da5: Serial Number xxx da5: 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit) da5: 0MB (0 512 byte sectors: 0H 0S/T 0C) da5: quirks=0x8<4K> but an fdisk: fdisk: can't get disk parameters on /dev/da3 fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da3: No such file or directory fdisk: can't get disk parameters on /dev/da5 fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da5: No such file or directory I can't do anything with these devices: dd if=/dev/da3 dd: /dev/da3: Device not configured 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000717 secs (0 bytes/sec) 0 0 0 Does anyone have any clues about what's gone (or is) wrong? Cheers, Darren