vmware 3.x broken on FreeBSD 5.x / 6.x with IDE devices

[Martin Blapp]

Hi,

Since FreeBSD 5.2.1 we get the following error:

> Nov 15 14:54:39: VMX|OPROM: OpromPowerOff
> Nov 15 14:54:39: VMX|AIOPowerOff ide0:0

It looks like ad0 gets disconnected by vmware.
It is still not clear how this can happen. Of
course this leads to a deadlock if ad0 is the
root disk.

rtc: 100 > kern.hz: Timing will be inaccurate, please increase hz.
ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5724133
ad0: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
ad0: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration
ata0-master: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out
swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 2,size 4096, error 0
vm_fault: pager read error, pid 2882 (amd)
vm_fault: pager read error, pid 2767 (vmware-mks)
Nov 15 15:01:10 chohira kernel: pid 2882 (amd), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov 15 15:01:10 chohira amd[411]: Process 2882 exited with signal 11
Nov 15 15:01:10 chohira amd[411]: mount for /host/nbs got signal 11
initiate_write_filepage: already started

Martin