I've installed 2008.11 in the latest VMware Server 2 under a Vista host with
the goal of virtualizing my home file server. I have a 400GB Samsung SATA disk
which I'm trying to access in OpenSolaris via VMware's SCSI passthrough.
Unfortunately I can't access the disk at all from OpenSolaris. I will also
note that I can access the same disks without issue from a Centos 5 guest, so
the host itself seems to not be an issue.
root at scupper:~# format
Searching for disks...
The device does not support mode page 3 or page 4,
or the reported geometry info is invalid.
WARNING: Disk geometry is based on capacity data.
The current rpm value 0 is invalid, adjusting it to 3600
Bad read of fdisk partition.
done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c4t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2607 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci at 0,0/pci15ad,1976 at 10/sd at 0,0
1. c5t0d0 <drive type unknown>
/pci at 0,0/pci15ad,790 at 11/pci15ad,1976 at 4/sd at 0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^C
root at scupper:~# fdisk /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0p0
Error in ioctl DKIOCGMBOOT: I/O error
fdisk: Error reading partition table from /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0p0.
root at scupper:~# zpool create storage c5t0d0
cannot label 'c5t0d0': try using fdisk(1M) and then provide a specific slice
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