Re: [LinuxBIOS] VMWare almost there, IDE problems

[Joe Pub]

Hi Peter,

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.

log ----

menu: hda1:/boot/grub/menu.lst
malloc_diag: alloc: 160 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16216 bytes (1 blocks)
file_open: dev=hda1, path=/boot/grub/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 0011d7c0
IDE time out waiting for not_bsy
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 24/04/07, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:47:44PM +0100, Joe Pub wrote:
> > I have applied the patch at no avail,  I get the following now, but
> > still have the timeout issue.
>
> Hm.
> > ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0011d760
> > IDE time out
>
> Please apply the attached patch to a clean FILO tree and test again,
> it provides more precise debugging output for timeouts.
>
> If it happens to work then great, but I doubt it. :) If it doesn't
> work you could try setting IDE_DISK_POLL_DELAY=1 in Config to see if
> that makes a difference. But I definately want to fix FILO so that it
> isn't needed.
>
> Thanks!
>
> //Peter