It seems to be a bug in VMWare's LSILogic emulation. It wrongfully says MaxDevices is 0.
To fix it, apply the patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345 and remove the mpt_channel_mapping stuff from /etc/modprobe.d/options. 112860 should remain resolved as it looks like basically the same issue as this, but with just one disk.
I've tracked this down.
It seems to be a bug in VMWare's LSILogic emulation. It wrongfully says MaxDevices is 0.
To fix it, apply the patch from http:// lkml.org/ lkml/2007/ 3/23/345 and remove the mpt_channel_mapping stuff from /etc/modprobe. d/options. 112860 should remain resolved as it looks like basically the same issue as this, but with just one disk.