Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-arm I/O problems

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 June 2012 16:47, solar <address@hidden> wrote:
> QEMU emulator version 1.1.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
>
> parameters used: qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -m 256 -net nic -net
> user,hostfwd=tcp::40022-:22 -nographic -hda debian-6-armel.img -kernel
> vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile -initrd initrd.img-2.6.32-5-versatile -append
> "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyAMA0"

> Once apt starts to do disk I/O the kernel throws numerous SCSI errors:
> [  165.292240] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
> driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> [  165.292653] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current]
> [  165.292950] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: I/O process terminated
> [  165.293197] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 01 2d fd 40 00 02 a8
> 00
> [  165.293573] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 19791168
> [  165.293772] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 2473640
> [  165.293900] lost page write due to I/O error on sda1

I can reproduce this with v1.1.0, but not with master, which suggests
it has been fixed at some point. I might try to bisect to find out
what exactly the fix was.

-- PMM