[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[Ajai Khattri]

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?

Sounds like a bad drive to me.



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