On FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p11 under VMWARE ESXI 7.0U2a fsck run on a UFS filesystem with journaled soft-updates enables cannot access journal file. When fsck fails to access .sujournal Kernel messages show: May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: pvscsi0: pvscsi_execute_ccb error 27 May 9 13:38:50 nas3 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: (da1:pvscsi0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 a9 c0 00 04 00 00 May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: (da1:pvscsi0:0:1:0): CAM status: The request was too large for this host May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: (da1:pvscsi0:0:1:0): Error 22, Unretryable error May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: (da1:pvscsi0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 00 00 00 ad c0 00 04 00 00 May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: (da1:pvscsi0:0:1:0): CAM status: The request was too large for this host May 9 13:38:50 nas3 kernel: (da1:pvscsi0:0:1:0): Error 22, Unretryable error Placing kern.maxphys="131072" in /boot/loader.conf remedies problem with fsck a possible problem with pvscsi.ko kernel module?