I had the 3.0 beta 4 basic version running on a Compaq Evo Desktop D510 with 3 Seagate 400 gig PATA drives using a Sandisk Cruzer mini 512mb usb drive.  I really just wanted to see if it would work with my hardware.

I went through the process of initializing the parity drive (overnight) and then formatting the two data drives the next day.

 

Here's some specs on the machine: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11349_div/11349_div.HTML

 

I had an additional Western Digital PATA drive connected as the 'first' drive on the first ide port (drive 0) that had been my Win XP boot drive which I wasn't using in the Un-Raid setup so I decided to remove this drive and move the three Segate 400 gig drives, figuring I might need to start over from scratch since the drives would be in different 'slots'?

 

After doing this, when booting the (unchanged) usb, I got the below errors.  I've tried putting things back the way they were but still got the same errors booting the usb drive.

 

I've re-formatted the flash drive using the HP utility, re-run syslinux and unzip'd the 3.0 beta 4 un-raid files to the disk but still get the same behavior.

 

The usb drive with the 3.0 beta 4 *does* boot fine in another machine so I'm wondering if I somehow got 'lucky' the first time with the Compaq D510? 

 

Still, this doesn't make sense to me.  It seemed to be booting and working fine on the Compaq 510 and now it doesn't but does on another machine.....

 

 

I searched for some of the SCSI errors I'm seeing and didn't get any hits so I'm hoping somebody may have seen this kind of thing before and might have some things I could try to get it working again on the Compaq 510.

 

thanks for any comments,

 

-Don

 

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these were copied from the screen so there may be typos

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fsck 1.38 (30-JUN-2005)

 

SCSI device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset

 

host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0

 

scsi disk error: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun return code = 50000

 

I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2

I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

 

unable to read partition table

 

mount: /dev/dsa1 is not a valid block device

 

INIT: entering runlevel: 3

 

Going mulitiuser....

 

How do you have your 3 Seagate 400's hooked up (ie, Pri. Master, Pri. Slave, Sec. Master)?

Any other storage devices hooked up?

Do you only have the one Flash plugged in when you are trying to boot?

How much RAM is in your system?

The link you gave doesn't seem to state the motherboard model, can you look to see if there is a sticker on the motherboard somewhere which has this?

Limetech wrote:

>How do you have your 3 Seagate 400's hooked up (ie, Pri. Master, Pri. Slave, Sec. Master)?

 

At the time everything was working, the 3 Seagate 400s were hooked up as Pri Slave and Sec. Master, Sec. Slave

 

>Any other storage devices hooked up?

 

There was a Western Digital drive hooked up as Pri. Master.  All drives were using 'cable select'.  After I saw the problems I tried jumpering the drives 'manually' as master/slave etc.

 

>Do you only have the one Flash plugged in when you are trying to boot?

 

Yes.  I was using a usb keyboard and mouse when things were working, but have since swapped those out for standard keyboard/mouse in an attempt to rule that out.

 

>How much RAM is in your system?

 

512 MB

 

>The link you gave doesn't seem to state the motherboard model, can you look to see if there is a sticker on the motherboard somewhere which has this?

 

Ok, will look for that and report back.

 

I wondered if it would be worth trying disconnecting ALL hardrives and booting with the usb drive that way just to see if I could get past the point where it's erroring out.  Would it make any sense to try that?

I'll also try returning the setup to use the original Western Digital disk with Win XP in the Pri. Master position and make sure it can boot that way etc.

 

 

 

Here's what I have in terms of identification from the motherboard though I doubt it'll be much use.

 

It's definiately a Compaq logo branded motherboard.

 

From the edge of the motherboard:

K2B73070A0 C02101-L

 

From underneath the cpu heatsink:

SP #283983-001 P58B40KREO300R

DG #261932-000