[SOLVED] External Hard Disk switched from ATA to USB after update

[Nuwanda]

Hi All,

I’ve been using an external hard drive (5TB WD) for the past year connected to Proxmox and passed through to a FreeNAS VM. When I set it up initially, it showed up as an ATA device and I passed thourough using the device id.

Today I updated proxmox and after the reboot, my VM wouldn’t start because it couldn’t find the drive. After digging a bit I found that the device id changed completely and is now prefixed with usb.

What are my options here? Appreciate any help!

 

[leesteken]

Today I updated proxmox and after the reboot, my VM wouldn’t start because it couldn’t find the drive. After digging a bit I found that the device id changed completely and is now prefixed with usb.

Maybe change the VM configuration file to match the new path to the drive?

 

[Nuwanda]

Maybe change the VM configuration file to match the new path to the drive?

Will try that - hope it doesn’t mess with my FreeNAS setup though. And it was passed as scsci so I guess it’s fine to leave that bit as is?

 

[leesteken]

Will try that - hope it doesn’t mess with my FreeNAS setup though. And it was passed as scsci so I guess it’s fine to leave that bit as is?

Sounds like only the path (something like /dev/disk/by-iid/...) changed. You can still use the same VM settings and I doubt that anything changed on the drive. The path is not known inside the VM, which will still see it as SCSI device number-so-and-so.

 

[Nuwanda]

This worked!! Thank you so much for the quick response