after upgrading from VMWare Server 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 on Debian Etch I had serious errors in VMWare guests.

The Guests are running Debian Etch too. They have one SCSI disk image with BusLogic adapter.

On boot I get strange errors:

sdb: READ CAPACITY failed

sd: current: sense key: illegal request

Additional sense: Invalid command operation code

sd: 0:0:1:0 scsi: device offlined - not ready after recovery

sd 0:0:1:0 SCSI error: return code 0x00030000

sdc: spinning up disk ....

And there it hangs for a while.

Strange is, that there is only one scsi disk configured. Why the kernel is suddenly "seeing" sdb and sdc I don't know. After downgrading to 1.0.3 everything works fine again, the kernel is correctly seeing only sda again.

Below is a sample vmx file

Regards,

haary

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "364"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "print.vmdk"
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/var/VM/grml.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "print"
guestOS = "otherlinux"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

scsi0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 39 b1 86 e1 a4 97-d3 6f 25 9f 8b d7 e2 6f"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 39 b1 86 e1 a4 97-d3 6f 25 9f 8b d7 e2 6f"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d7:e2:6f"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

autostart = "poweron"
autostop = "softpoweroff"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"