From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 648 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 06:10:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26683 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 06:10:32 -0000 From: Brian Jackson Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:10:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <200308280258.38262.steve@stevesworld.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <200308280258.38262.steve@stevesworld.hopto.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308280110.31042.iggy@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] VMware workstation 4.0.1 Problem X-Archives-Salt: 30dd33f2-5247-467c-bcd2-5abc9cd5e49f X-Archives-Hash: 98df8dd5f44a0df37c74c73dc6d889a3 Just for reference there is nothing development specific about this email, it probably belongs on -user. On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:58 am, Stephen Clowater wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, I've been having A persistant problem that is reproducable in linux > systems and windows systems in vmware workstation 4 and 3.2.1. > > The problem occurs when a number of writes are attempted on the scsi disk > (the vmware virtual hard disk). > > After many failures with a windows install, I tried it with the gentoo > live-cd, I found i could partion sda, however when I attempted a dd > if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda, In both vmware 3.2.1 and vmware 4 I get the > following entries in the log file: I've never seen any problems like this, have you tried on a different computer > > I'm wondering if there is anything in particular a given gentoo > installation needs (using the gentoo-sources kernel) that could cause this? > Or is it simply a bug that is destin for bugs.gentoo.org? Actually, if you really think this is a bug then it should probably go to Vmware since it's their product. All we do is make it easy for those people with licenses to install it. > > Thanks > > Steve --Brian Jackson -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list