Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/target-i386 helper.c

[Eric Lowe]

>> Then lots of 'timeout: reset bus, target=0, lun=0' and other warnings 

>> with:

>> 

>> Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: informational

>> Sense Key: aborted command

>> Vendor 'Gen-ATA' error code: 0x3

>
> That's a new problem.  It seems that the updated bios.bin doesn't setup

> the ide disk for DMA mode any more, or something like that.  I'm seeing 

> the same problem after a qemu cvs update.  When I replace

> qemu/share/qemu/bios.bin with an older version the problem is gone.



You could also try adding '-B ata-dma-enabled=0'
to boot the kernel as another
alternate workaround.

The Solaris ATA driver assumes that all devices of ATA4 or greater support
and are configured for DMA.

- Eric