On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 20:25, K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> The random crashes, I'm told, are due to excessive scsi bus resets.  I 
> haven't debugged it any further since the separate IDE bus solution 
> seems to work for me.

It also seemed, from both the guest's kernel message buffer and the
host's vmware.log, that NetBSD sends a lot of SCSI mode sense commands,
which the SCSI emulation layer doesn't appear to support. This may be
the cause of all the SCSI bus resets from the NetBSD guest; my guess is
that the VMWare virtual disk just needs a quirk entry so that the kernel
doesn't try to send endless mode sense commands. Perhaps an enterprising
developer would like to play with this further; I don't have time to :-(

- Julian

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