Harddrive error on Digital Alpha PWS500a

ddew · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 10

Ok, my ongoing saga continues

Now on the stock 2.2 debian kernel the second harddrive (hdd) shows up with an error on boot:

read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

I've googled some for it but the only references I can find to it are problems with RAID-controllers and such on the x86 arch.

Bear in mind that I have no option of attaching a CD-drive to it. So I can't boot from live cds or anything to check it out.

Anyone recognize the prob?

jeffd · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Mass

I might be wrong but, I don't believe you can boot a Miata from an IDE hard drive. You have to boot from a SCSI drive, iirc.

Unless you can get a working SCSI controller (Miata GL's had them onboard, earlier models wer PCI cards), you might be SOL.

Jeff D

ddew · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 10

No problem booting from IDE, I've done it a few hundred times

Both CD and HD.

The problem occurs when I try to mount a second hd so I can install gentoo.

Thanks anyway