my 2 cents. Install the p3605 in a windoze box (if you have one and are comfortable with windows) and see if you can repartition/format it there first. Ie. give it a bit of a test drive, copy some files etc. etc. If it works there you've ruled out the P3605 has issues. If you are more comfortable with Linux give that a go instead.What should I do? Reinstall ESXI? Reinstall Proxmox?
Only Macs in the house and none have PCI-E slots.my 2 cents. Install the p3605 in a windoze box (if you have one and are comfortable with windows) and see if you can repartition/format it there first. Ie. give it a bit of a test drive, copy some files etc. etc. If it works there you've ruled out the P3605 has issues. If you are more comfortable with Linux give that a go instead.
thunderbolt 3 PCIE sidecar?Only Macs in the house and none have PCI-E slots.
Are any of your other drives populated with data? If not try using one of them as a data store.What should I do? Reinstall ESXI? Reinstall Proxmox?
I like this idea. There are currently 4 spinning hard drives, fresh out of the box.Are any of your other drives populated with data? If not try using one of them as a data store.
We can install a VM on the datastore, passthru the p3605 and troubleshoot from there.
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Will look sightly different for you due to version differences, but basically you have to add a New PCIE device
This is just messed up. Install was going along until I got to the put in a user name and password and I can't input anything. If I type, an area of my screen opens and takes my keystrokes. Clicking, tabbing, arrow keys - nothing works on this screen. Opened console in new tab, opened in a new window, same thing. Keystrokes are not getting to this screen.well then you have none that you can pass through... need to config that
Got to manage, click on your P3605, click toggle passthrough, reboot
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I'm not a VMWare enthusiast and specialist, but this sounds like something doesn't like the partition. Did you, maybe with PartedMagic or other tools, delete the current partition, erased the drive completely and go from there? Maybe the part table is messed up badly.Yes, there is a 1.46TB VMFS partition on that drive. If I click on that drive under Storage, and select New datastore, I give it a name, click next, and the next screen is to Select partitioning options. I can only select use the entire disk. When I click on Finish I get the error Failed to create VMFS datastore - see vmkernel log, and we're back to where we were a dozen messages ago.
A new combination of letters of the alphabet for me - but it worked. Got the info entered and ubuntu looks to be installing.
I would like nothing more than to get this drive back to factory defaults. PartedMagic looks like it might be a good tool to use here. Let me see where I stand after ubuntu boots.I'm not a VMWare enthusiast and specialist, but this sounds like something doesn't like the partition. Did you, maybe with PartedMagic or other tools, delete the current partition, erased the drive completely and go from there? Maybe the part table is messed up badly.