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Hi,

 

 

can anyone help with following situation: I have 6 SATA drives on P35 ASUS motherboard and want to install FreeNAS as VM to access a few of 6 HDD directly from VM. Host OS is Windows Server 2008 x64.

 

 

I tryed to use this config like this:

 

 

  1. Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

CID=d61db546

parentCID=ffffffff

createType="fullDevice"

 

 

  1. Extent description

RW 1953525168 FLAT "
.\PhysicalDrive4" 0

 

 

  1. The Disk Data Base

#DDB

 

 

ddb.encoding = "windows-1252"

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"

ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255"

ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "121601"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "121601"

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is in line

 

 

RW 1953525168 FLAT "
.\PhysicalDrive4" 0

 

 

because each time machine boots specific HDD is under different Physical Drive number, i.e. "
.\PhysicalDrive4" or "
.\PhysicalDrive2". There can be any number between 1 and 5. Never zero.

 

 

 

 

 

Any idea how I can configure VM to get only desired HDD, and not random?

 

 

VMware Server 2.0.1 on Quad Core with 8GB.

 

 

TIA


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