Re: 2.6.21-rc regression in mptbase

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Mar 24 2007 02:02, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>> > in at least 2.6.21-rc4, one or more of the mptscsi scsi modules is 
>> > broken with respect to not detecting any harddisk (VMware provides that 
>> > virtual LSI MPT controller), which means no working system.
>> > No problems in 2.6.20.2.
>> 
>> Could be a bug in the driver or a bug in the emulation exposed by a 
>> change in the driver.
>> 
>Hello,
>   it is bug in the emulation.  It should be fixed in Workstation 6.0 RC1.  If you
>want to use VMware's LSILogic emulation with older products, you need fix below until
>new releases come out (or unless I'll put out binary patch to fix binaries to
>return 16 instead of previous value).

Yes (workaround works) and rc1 works. Thanks.


Jan
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