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

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? LSI

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 and alot less regression

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 for

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 li...@wiesinger.com 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

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. That should

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 MDL SATA

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 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

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

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 staying

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

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),

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 li...@wiesinger.com 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.

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

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 avoid

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,

[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