[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[Peter C. Norton]

If it was the slave drive, are you relying on the cable-select
position to chose the setting of the drive (master/slave) for you?
I've never heard of that failing, but it always could, I suppose...

-Peter 

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:26:00AM -0400, Paul Robbins wrote:
> I had a linux box with a 7GB master disk and a 80G slave drive.  Over the
> weekend, I tried to access something off the slave drive and it showed
> nothing on the disk. I tried to unmount it, but got an error.  After some
> other attempts to mount or unmount the drive, i decided to reboot to see if
> it would get re-initialized on boot.  Instead, when it came back up, it
> tried to boot off of the NIC card, ignoring both of the hard drives. When I
> would disconnect the slave drive from the cable, the system would boot from
> the master drive without a problem.  I also tried to boot using Knoppix to
> see if the drive would be recognized that way, but it was not.  I have DVD
> backups of the critical files, but I don't want to lose a drive if ther is
> an easy solution.  Generally, the Knoppix option works for me to at least
> pull off the data I need from a bad drive, but I haven't seen it fail to be
> recognized at all. Is this a sign of no power getting to the drive? Any help
> or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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