Re: [LinuxBIOS] VMWare almost there, IDE problems

[Anton]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:39:21 +0100
"Joe Pub"  wrote:

Peter, Joe. Could it be VMware's misconfiguration?

I would done the following: use etherboot payload, then try to mount 
/dev/hda1 partition. Or rather test - dd if=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1 of=/dev/null
If there's an error in the latter case - obviously VMware to blame.
> Hi Peter,
>
> Yea, it seems to wait for that length of time before the error
> appears.  Here is the log output of the latest patch.
>
> menu: hda1:/boot/filo/menu.lst
> malloc_diag: alloc: 160 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16216 bytes (1 blocks)
> file_open: dev=hda1, path=/boot/filo/menu.lst
> find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 8086:7111 prog_if=0x8a
> find_ide_controller: primary channel: compatibility mode
> find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x1f0 ctrl_base=0x3f4
> ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok
> init_drive: Testing for hda
> init_drive: Probing for hda
> init_drive: LBA mode, sectors=2097152
> init_drive: Init device params... ok
> hda: LBA 1073MB: VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive
> init_drive: Testing for hdb
> init_drive: Testing for hdb
> ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0x0011d8e0
> IDE timeout after 32000 ms while waiting for not_bsy()
> pio_data_in: Device not ready before sending command
> Disk read error dev=1 drive=0 sector=0
> devread: read sector failed
> open_pc_partition: device read failed
> devopen: can't open partition 1
> malloc_diag: alloc: 144 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16232 bytes (1 blocks)
>
> On 25/04/07, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:26:25AM +0100, Joe Pub wrote:
> > > I have applied the patch, and also enabled the IDE polling option.
> > > Timeout still occurs.  Log included below.
> >
> > :(
> > > One thing that I have changed which I don't think will affect
> > > things (might be wrong here), but my version of GCC/as doesn't
> > > support the option -Wno-pointer-sign so I removed it.
> >
> > Yes, that's ok.
> > > ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0011d7c0
> > > IDE time out waiting for not_bsy
> >
> > This should be a 32 second timeout. Is it? (32s delay before the time
> > out error) If not, the problem is with timing.
> >
> > Attached is a new patch with a bit more detailed debugging output,
> > sorry for the hassle, I should already have had this in place. :\
> >
> > I've also made some small changes to the timer code, not sure if it
> > should matter though.. Try it out.
> >
> > //Peter