fedora 7 on VMWare

Fedora 7 Guest Disk Support Flakey in Server 1.3/Workstation 5.5

The error
Jun 2 09:28:31 f7 kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jun 2 09:28:31 f7 kernel: ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x26)
Jun 2 09:28:31 f7 kernel: ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x4a data 8 in
Jun 2 09:28:31 f7 kernel: res 51/50:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x20 (host bus error)
Jun 2 09:28:31 f7 kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
Jun 2 09:28:31 f7 kernel: ata2: EH complete

Solution

chkconfig –level 345 haldaemon off
/etc/init.d/haldaemon stop

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