[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[Peter C. Norton]

But you are actually putting on the jumper to set it to master, or are
you using the cable-select position?

-Peter

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:41:47PM -0400, Paul Robbins wrote:
> 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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