Hello world,
in at least 2.6.21-rc4, one or more of the mptscsi scsi modules is broken with respect to not detecting any harddisk (VMware provides that virtual LSI MPT controller), which means no working system. No problems in 2.6.20.2. I will be trying 2.6.21-rc1 shortly. 2.6.20.2: <6>PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 <6>PIIX4: chipset revision 1 <6>PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later <6> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio <7>Probing IDE interface ide1... <4>hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <6>Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.03 <6>Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation <6>Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.03 <6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 <6>mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup <6>ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} <6>scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032920h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=17 <5>scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access VMware, VMware Virtual S 1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 <6> target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation <6> target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests <6> target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation <6> target0:0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25 ns, offset 127) <5>SCSI device sda: 16777216 512-byte hdwr sectors (8590 MB) <5>sda: Write Protect is off <7>sda: Mode Sense: 5d 00 00 00 <5>sda: cache data unavailable <3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through <5>SCSI device sda: 16777216 512-byte hdwr sectors (8590 MB) <5>sda: Write Protect is off <7>sda: Mode Sense: 5d 00 00 00 <5>sda: cache data unavailable <3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through <6> sda: sda1 sda2 <5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda <5>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 <7>libata version 2.00 loaded. <6>BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found <6>SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled <6>SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem <5>XFS mounting filesystem sda2 2.6.21: Loading piix PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Loading scsi_transport_spi Loading mptbase Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.04 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation Loading mptscsih Loading mptspi Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.04 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032920h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=17 Loading libata Loading ata_piix Loading fan Loading edd BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found Loading xfs SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem Waiting for device /dev/sda2 to appear: ............... Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/