From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred"
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:48:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4867061B.2090309@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478c82f00806281242q52a7fa55qcd458c9915e0c5a7@mail.gmail.com>
Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin wrote:
> For some reason when I try to boot qemu with -hda /dev/sda (or -hda
> /dev/hda), i.e. to use the whole disk, it fails with the above error
> "A disk read error occurred". This happens only on IBM/Lenovo laptops
> (tried a few models), while it works just fine on any desktop I can
> get my hands on. Probably has something to do with bios...
>
>
Can you add some printfs displaying the sector numbers being read? Some
disks have trouble accessing the last sector.
Also, an strace can help show the problem.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-28 19:42 [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred" Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
2008-06-29 3:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-06-30 23:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-01 9:03 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2008-07-01 9:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-01 9:31 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2008-07-01 21:37 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
2008-07-02 14:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-02 19:39 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
2008-07-02 19:47 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
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