Re: [Qemu-devel] "A disk read error occurred"

[Avi Kivity]

Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin wrote:
> For some reason when I try to boot qemu with -hda /dev/sda (or -hda
> /dev/hda), i.e. to use the whole disk, it fails with the above error
> "A disk read error occurred". This happens only on IBM/Lenovo laptops
> (tried a few models), while it works just fine on any desktop I can
> get my hands on. Probably has something to do with bios...
>
>   

Can you add some printfs displaying the sector numbers being read?  Some 
disks have trouble accessing the last sector.

Also, an strace can help show the problem.

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