ESXi 5.1, unRAID and JMicron

Hi,

I'm trying to get unRAiD working with ESXi 5.1 and 2 PCI SATA cards with JMB363 chips on. I've used lspci to see if the card is recognised and it is, but the kernel module isn't getting started.

I've tested this by booting the machine natively and all the drives show, but when I boot it in ESXi, I get nothing. The card is definitely being passed through.

I've attached both syslog files.

Motherboard: Intel DQ35JO - http://www.intel.com/p/en_UK/support/highlights/dsktpboards/dq35jo

Processor: Intel Quad Q9400 - http://ark.intel.com/products/35365/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9400-6M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB

PCIe SATA Cards: Startech PEXSATA22i - http://uk.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/SATA-Cards/2-Port-PCI-Express-Internal-SATA-Controller-Card~PEXSATA22I

Drives: All Western Digital of various sizes

Thanks

unRaid_Native.txt

unRaid_ESXi.txt

are you locked in to 5.1?  on my server 5.1 would not pass through stuff correctly.  5.0 worked, 5.5 works.

I did upgrade to 5.5, but it threw the Purple Screen Of Death on me as soon as I tried to boot a VM, so I rolled it back. I can try 5.5 again to see if I get any different results.

If 5.0 worked for you, I may install 5.0 first.

do you have stuff passed through to other VMs? 

I have the exact same card being passed through to a FreeNas I was trying out and I can see all the drives on there fine.

I've passed that card through to my unRAID VM but no drives show.

I dont think going back will help then. that's odd it works native, in other vms but not unraid vm

Just out of curiosity how are you booting unraid in vmware?

unRAID on a SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB.

I did have issues booting it, so I found instructions in using plpbtin.iso (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/full.html) and this essentially fronts the booting process.

ahh was just making sure you were not using a virtual drive with old bzroot bzimage to get it booted.