VB 2.1 crashes when using SATA RAW disk access

jason1365 · Post by **jason1365** » 13. Jan 2009, 04:02

I don't know how to re-open bug #2182 (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2182), but I'm experiencing the exact issue described.

ENV:
Windows XP SP2 fully patched
VB 2.1.0 (downloaded yesterday)
4 SATA disks (2x 400GB, 2x 1TB)

Issue:
I place the 4 disks all on the SATA controller in VB attempt to start the VB and it crashes immediately. I've tried various combinations to no avail. At this point I have loaded 3 of the disks via the IDE controller. Yet when i attempt to add the 4th disk via the SATA controller, immediate crash on start of the VM.

I attempted a workaround suggested in another. I've used the following command to switch between 1 and 0 which hasn't solved the issue.

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VBoxManage setextradata <VM name> VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/Config/UseAsyncInterfaceIfAvailable 0

Here are my VMDK files if that helps:
400GB #1

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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=76ba5851
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"

# Extent description
RW 781422768 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive2"

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="75c4a916-ca55-4fcc-8671-f658cb3033b4"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="19a5d110-c409-4a03-8659-68b4b664bea5"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="1024"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads="255"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63"

400GB #2

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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=75b1c791
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"

# Extent description
RW 781422768 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive3"

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="c4cb00eb-92b9-4148-a15d-c620d5067bdb"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="01bf67c3-2a28-42b6-b94f-004905c706a3"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="1024"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads="255"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63"

1TBGB #1

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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=5a1e1c56
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"

# Extent description
RW 1953525168 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive4"

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="fa945627-dbf9-4e45-807d-162a4bf372db"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

1TBGB #2

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# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=8aa2b935
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"

# Extent description
RW 1953525168 FLAT "\\.\PhysicalDrive5"

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="fe605b9f-dbb4-4b7b-9bbb-d15ed1cb7e54"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="2e9ec5a2-eae8-4e34-9b87-9b88f41cdfa2"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="1024"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads="255"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63"