-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 October 2004 05:09, bsdfsse wrote: [...] > The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release installation with > networking disabled (following Christian's docs). Every other > configuration resulted in losing access to the hard-drive as soon as I > hit the VM's "Power On" button.
Curiously I tried to install VMware on an other, faster machine. The slow machine was a P3-850MHz 440BX chipset and a SiI 0680 with 2 gvinum mirrored hdds in UDMA133 mode - worked w/o problems. I moved the data over to the faster XP2800+ KT600 chipset with VIA 8237 controller w/ 2 gvinum mirrored hdds (ad0/ad1) in UDMA133 mode and a Promise PDC20269 with 2 hdds (ad4/ad6) in UDMA133 mode. I observed similar symptoms: read and write DMA timeouts on the faster machine. After the guest OS had started I got lots of timeouts until the system is hard locked. All VMware data on ad6. / and /usr on the ad0/ad1 mirror. I will try to find out more on this and pr results when I have some more sparetime. /var/log/messages output: Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171871667 Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Oct 2 06:28:30 matrix010 kernel: ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171872247 Oct 2 06:28:30 matrix010 kernel: ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Oct 2 06:28:35 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=170673789 Oct 2 06:28:35 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA no interrupt but good status Oct 2 06:28:40 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=170674433 [...] Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXr4P09WjGjvKU74RAkCAAJ9v8ekiuSFSPzW/PmA1x0Fb/NryVgCggUKz aq16VmtQ/efQ17ommNq6y4I= =zemb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"