Leo,

 > I was wondering if anyone had a chance to look into this problem more.
 > I've done a great deal of research myself on it so far, but do not yet have
 > a solution. Most of the c:\winnt\security\edb*.log files that fill up the disk
 > are created during the hardware scan stage in the GUI portion of the install.
 > I'm using Windows 2000 Professional, on QEMU 0.6.2 (latest from CVS) and have
 > encountered the problem on any flavor of Linux I try.

 > I also tried a small patch to hw/ide.c (without the multithread bits),
 > from Vladimir N. Oleynik. Basically only the s->status is set to READY_STAT
 > instead of READY_STAT | SEEK_STAT in/around hw/ide.c:1472 from that patch.
 > This did not solve the problem at all.

O my God!
This problem consists not in these flags, you looked corrections
to the previous version of the ide emulator.
I have made new hack specially for elimination of a Subject problem only.
This correction adds waiting one (or zero, autorandomly) period before
sending interruption after positioning before write. (see attach)
But this a HACK, do not use after w2k install!
Me other idea interested - to make asynchronous input-output.
The received effect of elimination of a Subject problem was
completely unexpected.
But the author of the QEmu has not supported idea.
(The sended a patch do not contain asynchronous input-output.)



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