From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sat Mar 12 12:16:43 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 5642DACB62B for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:16:43 +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 30B3F967 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:16:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrenr@freebsd.org) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E455B20BDC for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:16:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:16:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=Gzk9NU+znUIf3TK mdeKpwXwSvkI=; b=MSUAcKarm82Q4CB/V/K5tuYgdJM+0WLLnJRNHZjFrCTi+Xc ns/4nCgI294nWt3xJfDEeio+JkTLdN6fjtYzxvqPA2wop5ueIwK76CVPkLFC2Pr4 DblAdSXnR4j3wkzlkCToZrU2g6MnWp3uHuTA+Oqe/gnFwXk28hYl+kfkTV7g= X-Sasl-enc: /zwEggZ7OQ5R2eUTkrFzrgn6i3EvEQpvVGM+H+ggmQTR 1457785001 Received: from [192.168.1.31] (203-206-138-26.perm.iinet.net.au [203.206.138.26]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 10E6FC00014 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:16:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <56E408A6.1000408@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:16:38 +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: Re: RDM device from ESX - can't get disk paramters? References: <56E3FE6C.2080401@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <56E3FE6C.2080401@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:16:43 -0000 On 12/03/2016 10:33 PM, Darren Reed wrote: > 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? I did a bit more looking at what I'd done previously and the answer to my question is this: when creating the RDM with vmkfstools, use the "-a lsilogic" option. Cheers, Darren