On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:30 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > There's no evidence that this is a BusLogic driver bug (as opposed to > being a VMware bug), but as I couldn't find any mention on this list I > thought I'd bring it to peoples attention: > > If you upgrade from vmware 1.0.3 to 1.0.4, when using the BusLogic > emulation (as opposed to LSI logic), the kernel reports existence of > many disks that do not actually exist. Accessing those disks obviously > causes hangs and error messages. > > http://communities.vmware.com/thread/103939?tstart=0&start=0 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198296 > > dmesg output from such a system: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135371&action=view > > This is similar but not the same as another vmware vs scsi driver problem: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118590789115292&w=2 > (that one is different and has been fixed in vmware) > > If anyone is interested in investigating, I can pass on patches to > people who can test them. It does rather look like a vmware emulation problem. The Short INQUIRY read: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access VMware, VMware Virtual S 1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 scsi scan: INQUIRY result too short (5), using 36 scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 Implies the inquiry returned all zeros (length of 5 is because that's the offset into the INQUIRY of the additional length), which is also a strong indicator of a vmware issue. There have been reports of BusLogic Flashpoint working, but that's practically a separate driver. The only real way to be sure is for someone to try it out with a real BT-958 and see. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
