[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[Paul Robbins]

I am moving the jumper.

On 8/21/06, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> wrote:
>
> 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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