Greetings,
I know enough to be dangerous here but ran into a bit of a snag. I have installed ESXI 6.5 on an old Alienware Aurora and I used a flash drive to install the software on (which works great) but I cannot get it to recognize my two SATA Hard Drives that are seen by BIOS (and other operating systems) without issue. I tried several things (formatting the HD's in several ways, messing with the BIOS, even installing a few VIBS that I thought would help after the fact to no effect. Am I missing something? I would rather not build a new install if I can help it (since its already installed and I believe you can just keep loading VIBS?)
Is this just simply a driver issue, and if it is, is it just a matter of getting the correct .VIB file to do what I need to do? I have been searching google like crazy and just keep coming up with more VIBS but nothing specific to my hard drives. Is it perhaps the HD controller I should be getting drivers to? I am completely lost. My previous installs on other systems have never had this problem.
BIOS shows
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ST2000DM001-9Y Seagate Barracuda 2tb
ST3000DM001-1C Seagate Desktop 3tb
Tried changing lots in BIOS, even tried to RAID which made no difference either. The only thing it can see is my flash.
Here are all the drivers ... was hopeful to find a section that says "VMWARE DRIVERS" but I assume that never happens.
Alienware Aurora Alx Drivers | Dell driver download
I would be most thankful for a point in the right direction, thanks!