BSOD 4.1.4 upgrade SAS LsiLogic (ICH9 only)

[myhead]

I would like to draw to your attention the following problem. I can not provide further information as I’ve return the system back to the previous stable version.

Virtual box version 4.0.12 Hard drives connected: SAS Controller LsiLogic Window XP Host Window XP Guest Current status: No known ‘major’ problems.

Upgrade to version 4.1.4 All XP guests VM BSOD with …07b error (Hardware problem)

Moved SAS connected drive to IDE controller. No BSOD but upon further investigations found SAS controller service/drivers are broken/failed to load correctly (4.1.4)

Thank you for your time

[aeichner]

Can you attach a VBox.log of the VM with 4.0.12 and one when 4.1.4 is used please? The VM configuration might help too. Thanks.

[myhead]

Replying to aeichner:

Can you attach a VBox.log of the VM with 4.0.12 and one when 4.1.4 is used please? The VM configuration might help too. Thanks.

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I seem to have lost my first reply to you so I start again. Log VB_002 is version 4.0.14 and working well Log VB_002_2 needs deleting (copy) Log VB_4.14_BSOD is version 4.14 and BSOD with STOP 0x...7B

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I'm needing this system so I shall fully restore (4.0.14) once this report is sent. All my VM's are based or similar on the following: 1x HDD (partitioned) LSI Adaptor SAS 3000 Series 8-port with 1068 driver 1.34.2.0 dated 07-12-2010 2x Intel PRO/1000 MT team'd as ALB/link @ 2.0 GBps VB Bridged networking only. 1x FDD drive 1x CDROM drive

Hope this is of some help but as I said it's the LSI controller falling over here, thank you for your time

[Frank Mehnert]

Still relevant with VBox 4.1.6? If so, does anything change if you use the PIIX3 chipset (not the ICH9 one)?

[myhead]

Replying to frank:

Still relevant with VBox 4.1.6? If so, does anything change if you use the PIIX3 chipset (not the ICH9 one)?

4.0.14 to 4.1.6 default(ICH9) = BSOD ...07b see errors below. ID11: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Scsi\Symmpi1 ID09: The device, \Device\Scsi\Symmpi1, did not respond within the timeout period ID51: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation

4.0.14 to 4.1.6 reset as suggested above(PIIX3)= OK Will this be a 'fixable' ICH9 chipset error in the next scheduled release?

Thanks once again for your help

[Frank Mehnert]

The ICH9 chipset is experimental and obviously it contains some bugs. The ICH9 chipset is only default for Mac OS X guests, not for any other guest type. Therefore I suggest to stay with the usual PIIX3 chipset.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.2.12.

[Danial]

Seems there is a odd delay/slow boot issue with the SAS controller

extremely long startup with all versions of the available driver - the windows loading screen has very low hdd activity for about 30 seconds If SAS device is toggled in device manager, it takes an awefully long time to disable or enable Scanning device manager for new hardware sends the device manager non-responsive for about 30 seconds

This SAS device uses the same LSI driver as the LSI SCSI controller, the LSI SCSI controller has none of the above issues.