Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks - follow up

2012-11-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 04/11/2012 11:20, Gerhard Wiesinger ha scritto: > Hello, > > Clean XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C89A disk when copying files. > Isn't on the same file, so looks like a timing problem. Reproduceable. > Driver used is sym_hi. Details are below. Hmm, why is XP resetting the HBA while copying

[Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks - follow up

2012-11-04 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello, Clean XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C89A disk when copying files. Isn't on the same file, so looks like a timing problem. Reproduceable. Driver used is sym_hi. Details are below. See also: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-03/msg00523.html Looks like problem is f

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-09 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:58:21 -0600, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote: I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support because they don't want to QA it. That should be a decent sign that you

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-09 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:18:38AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > BTW: I've found out how LSI logic BIOS geometry translation works > with (guessing) and without existing partition table. That might be > an option > for Seabios to implement. > @Kevin: What do you think? SeaBIOS has an algorithm

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 09/03/2012 08:46, Gerhard Wiesinger ha scritto: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> Hi, >> > #2 isn't an issue actually, at least for Debian users -- Well, it is, to some degree. Because vanilla upstream doesn't support booting from lsi it has alot less users an

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 09/03/2012 08:35, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto: > Is INT13h supported for legacy OS and to boot? Future? But as far as > I saw implemented in seabios, right? Yes, Kevin (O' Connor, not Wolf) integrated the patch this week. It will also be in Fedora 17. > What BIOS translation is used? Buslogic? L

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, #2 isn't an issue actually, at least for Debian users -- Well, it is, to some degree. Because vanilla upstream doesn't support booting from lsi it has alot less users and alot less regression testing (like autotest runs of lsi-scsi installs), wh

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > Advantages of LSI 53C895A over others: > 1.) OS support is great, even for legacy systems: DOS, Win 3.1, Win95, > NT 4, W2K, XP, Vista, Win7, Linux, etc. I don't know any adapter with > such wide range of OS support. Also tested up to 2TB of LUNs. Hmm? win7 here? At least the 64bit vers

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, >>> #2 isn't an issue actually, at least for Debian users -- >> >> Well, it is, to some degree. Because vanilla upstream doesn't support >> booting from lsi it has alot less users and alot less regression testing >> (like autotest runs of lsi-scsi installs), which sums up to more bugs >> st

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 03/08/12 09:54, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 08.03.2012 11:44, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: OK, but SAS (Serial attached SCSI) is technology in the area of storage interface technology where all big storage vendors see future (e.g. they give up: FC and SATA dri

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 08.03.2012 11:44, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 03/07/12 20:58, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote: I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support beca

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: On 03/07/12 20:58, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote: I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support because they don't want to QA it. That should be

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 03/08/12 09:54, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 08.03.2012 11:44, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> OK, but SAS (Serial attached SCSI) is technology in the area of storage >>> interface technology where all big storage vendors see future (e.g. they >>> give up: FC and SATA drives, SATA drives are replaced by

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 08.03.2012 11:44, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 03/07/12 20:58, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote: >>> I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given >>> up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support because they don't >>> want to QA it. Th

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-07 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 03/07/12 20:58, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote: >> I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given >> up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support because they don't >> want to QA it. That should be a decent sign that you may want to

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-07 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Brian Jackson wrote: I think most people trying to use qemu for anything useful have given up on if=scsi. Some distros even disable support because they don't want to QA it. That should be a decent sign that you may want to avoid it. OK, but SAS (Serial attached SCSI) is tec

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-07 Thread Brian Jackson
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:41:39 -0600, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: Ping. Any comments? Thnx. Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/ On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: Hello, Clean XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C89A disk when copying files. Reproduceable. Driver used is s

Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-06 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Ping. Any comments? Thnx. Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/ On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: Hello, Clean XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C89A disk when copying files. Reproduceable. Driver used is sym_hi. Details are below. Tried also old versions 1.0, 0.15.1, co

[Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

2012-03-04 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello, Clean XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C89A disk when copying files. Reproduceable. Driver used is sym_hi. Details are below. Tried also old versions 1.0, 0.15.1, cores too. Any ideas? Thnx. Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/ Image created with: qemu-img create -f qcow2 XP