[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[Paul Robbins]

I tried to transplant it into a windows box and boot knoppix, but it still
did not recognize it.  I also tried it as the master drive in the windows
box and in the linux box, but it still never showed up.  The drive seems to
get warm, but nothing other than that. I wish they had a light on them so I
at least knew if it was getting power.

On 8/21/06, wdg3rd at comcast.net <wdg3rd at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Sounds like the BIOS might be hosed.  If Setup doesn't work, I'd suggest
> transplanting the drives into another box.
> --
> Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
>
> Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
> of the last priest.  Denis Diderot
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Paul Robbins" <robbins.paul at gmail.com>
> > 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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