From: "Steve" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 1834830 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:12:45 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1MxV0N-0005Zu-9O for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:12:45 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:59013) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MxV0J-0004K1-3B for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:12:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (really [24.209.191.3]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20091013001238456.TICA8725@hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:12:38 +0000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020201.4AD3C5F8.003B,ss=1,fgs=0 Message-ID: <4AD3C602.3000900@wi.rr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:50 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] [eCS] MPTS? was MPTN? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>>> I looked in the *.vmx file and found this: >>>> >>>> scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" >>>> scsi0:0.fileName = "eCS 2.vmdk" >>>> scsi0.present = "TRUE" >>>> scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic" >>>> buslogic.noDriver = "FALSE" >>>> >>> OK, that's a problem in the conversion program. >> I'm going to ask VMWare support about it. The licenses my old boss >> bought ought to buy him something! I'll send them all the files >> zipped up. >> > Just checking to see if you happened to make any headway with this, > Steve. Not really. I asked VMWare if they wanted the files, they said they didn't need them, and explained that the SCSI drives were virtual devices and do not need ( nor would they benefit from ) real SCSI drivers. When I really thought about it, that made perfect sense. Eventually, after WAY too many failed attempts at installing, and WAY too much time wasted waiting for the ISA snooper to finish, I threw in the towel.