From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Drake Subject: BusLogic driver reports non-existent disks since VMware 1.0.4 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:30:03 +0000 Message-ID: <47DD834B.9050807@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.33]:32502 "EHLO queueout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751880AbYCPUkP (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:40:15 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: lnz@dandelion.com Hi, There's no evidence that this is a BusLogic driver bug (as opposed to being a VMware bug), but as I couldn't find any mention on this list I thought I'd bring it to peoples attention: If you upgrade from vmware 1.0.3 to 1.0.4, when using the BusLogic emulation (as opposed to LSI logic), the kernel reports existence of many disks that do not actually exist. Accessing those disks obviously causes hangs and error messages. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/103939?tstart=0&start=0 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198296 dmesg output from such a system: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135371&action=view This is similar but not the same as another vmware vs scsi driver problem: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118590789115292&w=2 (that one is different and has been fixed in vmware) If anyone is interested in investigating, I can pass on patches to people who can test them. Daniel