Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up)

[Christian Hiris]

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On Saturday 02 October 2004 05:09, bsdfsse wrote:
[...]
> The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release installation with
> networking disabled (following Christian's docs).  Every other
> configuration resulted in losing access to the hard-drive as soon as I
> hit the VM's "Power On" button.

Curiously I tried to install VMware on an other, faster machine.
The slow machine was a P3-850MHz 440BX chipset and a SiI 0680 with 2 gvinum 
mirrored hdds in UDMA133 mode - worked w/o problems.

I moved the data over to the faster XP2800+ KT600 chipset with VIA 8237 
controller w/ 2 gvinum mirrored hdds (ad0/ad1) in UDMA133 mode and a Promise 
PDC20269 with 2 hdds (ad4/ad6) in UDMA133 mode. 

I observed similar symptoms: read and write DMA timeouts on the faster 
machine. After the guest OS had started I got lots of timeouts until the 
system is hard locked. All VMware data on ad6. / and /usr on the ad0/ad1 
mirror. I will try to find out more on this and pr results when I have some 
more sparetime.     
 
/var/log/messages output:

Oct  2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries 
left) LBA=171871667
Oct  2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but 
good status
Oct  2 06:28:30 matrix010 kernel: ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries 
left) LBA=171872247
Oct  2 06:28:30 matrix010 kernel: ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but 
good status
Oct  2 06:28:35 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries 
left) LBA=170673789
Oct  2 06:28:35 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA no interrupt but 
good status
Oct  2 06:28:40 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries 
left) LBA=170674433
[...]
    
Cheers,
ch

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