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18 Replies Last post: May 12, 2008 5:48 PM by Annihilannic
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FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4

Sep 19, 2007 4:15 PM

Click to view kwl33181's profile Lurker kwl33181 2 posts since
Aug 11, 2006
After converting my SCSI drives to IDE to solve previous FC7/Vmware issues I upgraded to 1.0.4. Now upon boot my screen and messages log are filling up with bellow SCSI entries. Once errors reach sd 2:0:15:7 the errors stop. Thoughts?

Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: [sdx] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: [sdx] Sense not available.
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: rejecting I/O to offline device
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: [sdx] Write Protect is off
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: rejecting I/O to offline device
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: [sdx] Asking for cache data failed
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: [sdx] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: [sdx] Attached SCSI disk
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: sd 2:0:2:6: Attached scsi generic sg24 type 0
Sep 18 16:55:29 dev kernel: scsi2: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully ***
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Sep 19, 2007 4:34 PM
Click to view kwl33181's profile Lurker kwl33181 2 posts since
Aug 11, 2006
Managed to solve this one.

VMX file had the below line commented out.
#scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"

I uncommented the line and changed to
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

reboot and errors are gone.

Hope this helps anybody else with similar issues.
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 9, 2007 4:14 PM
Click to view ZuckaS's profile Novice ZuckaS 8 posts since
Oct 9, 2007

Come on, someone! Same problem with Fedora 7.

There are a few posts here, but I could not find any other info anywhere else.

My system runs on XP host and Fedora 7 is the guest. I just don't know why I upgraded. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Right!

I hope someone from VMWare is reading this.

Z

Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 11, 2007 4:36 AM
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Click to view niknah's profile Lurker niknah 1 posts since
Oct 10, 2007


Same problem here, happens while running "nast", the first thing it does at kernel start up.

It doesn't even end at sdz for me, it continues on to sdaa, sdab..... forever. Not even the fedora 7 rescue cd will boot up, same error.

Now I have a brick, how can I open the disk image to read my data back?

fedora 7, vmware server v1.04, windows xpsp2


Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 11, 2007 7:27 AM
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Click to view FranckG's profile Lurker FranckG 2 posts since
Oct 11, 2007

Same issue here - I am stuck and can not run my VM any more

FC7 host, vmware server v1.04 running FC7 VMs

Solution above did not help

I attached a screenshot of the message I get on boot

Thnak you very much in advance for any help

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Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 11, 2007 11:06 AM
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Click to view FranckG's profile Lurker FranckG 2 posts since
Oct 11, 2007
Update: after restarting everything, it seems that the VMs eventually starts running (looks like it has to go through all sda first). It does take 10+ minutes for the Vm to boot though so it is still a pretty big issue
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 11, 2007 11:11 AM
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Click to view ZuckaS's profile Novice ZuckaS 8 posts since
Oct 9, 2007
Same here, however everything seems very slooooooooow once the VM boots.
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 12, 2007 2:35 AM
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Click to view jakobi6's profile Lurker jakobi6 1 posts since
Feb 6, 2006

one fix is indeed, like an earlier poster noted: lsilogic line instead of the default buslogic. works for me on gutsy 7.10 beta 64bit, with 32bit gutsy guest. in addition, I changed everything to scsi from ide (cdrom), but I doubt that this was the trick...
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 12, 2007 11:24 AM
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Click to view llkkss's profile Lurker llkkss 2 posts since
Oct 6, 2007
Changing to lsilogic does not work on my setup (Fedora 7 guest, Windows XP SP2 host).
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 12, 2007 11:30 AM
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Click to view ZuckaS's profile Novice ZuckaS 8 posts since
Oct 9, 2007

I don't know about you guys, but this looks VMWare look pretty bad in my eyes. You would expect them to read these posts and contribute a little bit.

I don't want to sound like a dick, but seriousely... Comments?

Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 12, 2007 11:39 AM
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Click to view Peter_vm's profile Guru Peter_vm 9,056 posts since
Feb 1, 2006 Moderator
In fact they do contribute, quite a lot.

If you want better support, buy a support service contract. It is available for VMware Server.
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 12, 2007 11:43 AM
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Click to view ZuckaS's profile Novice ZuckaS 8 posts since
Oct 9, 2007
Point taken!
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Oct 15, 2007 2:13 AM
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Click to view ABank's profile Lurker ABank 2 posts since
Nov 24, 2005

Folks

I have the same Issue, but a different environment.

My host runs openSuse 10.2 x_64 and the guest is Fedora5 i386 with a buslogic virtual scsi adapter.

I run cacti on the Fedora VM, all other VMs are either Windows or Suse, and they continue to work without problems.

Fedora scans all possible sd* and finally boots up.

I don't think changing the scsi adapter type from buslogic to lsilogic would work; how do you get the initrd updated ?

Cheers from Vienna, Austria

Albert

Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Nov 1, 2007 6:27 AM
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Click to view Mapache23's profile Lurker Mapache23 1 posts since
Nov 1, 2007
I downgraded to VMWare Server 1.0.3 and everything was ok again.
Reply Re: FC7 using IDE Drives causing SCSI errors - Server 1.0.4 Nov 27, 2007 11:07 PM
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Click to view soundbot's profile Lurker soundbot 1 posts since
Nov 28, 2006

I had this problem with FC5 when I upgraded from VMware Server 1.0.2 to 1.0.4. I believe I "accidentally" setup this VM with buslogic instead of lsilogic as I've done with all my other FC instances. Another FC5 instance that used lsilogic from the beginning, had no issue with this upgrade.

setting scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic" in my .vmx initially caused a kernel panic...probably because the kernel did not have the lsilogic driver loaded.

I opted to do an upgrade to FC5 over my existing installation (only took a few minutes) and the VM booted fine after that.

of course I also had to update all 93 packages that reverted back to previous versions :p


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