[nylug-talk] hard drive failure

[Paul Robbins]

Yeah, that seems to be what is happening.  Well now that it is likely a bad
drive, is there any place that you recommend to go to try and have the data
pulled off the drive?  I know that some places like Geek Squad will try, but
with it being ext3, I am sure they will think it is trashed even if they get
it working.

On 8/22/06, mylar <micros50 at computer.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 11:26, 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 the
> 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.
>
> I have had incidents where hard drives "failed" because power wasn't
> getting to the drive. In particular a Dell machine which was
> intermittent. I thought the drive was  failing but it was an
> intermittent power problem.i.e. flimsy loose connector. If  you have a
> free unused Molex connector in the machine try swapping it and see what
> happens. Otherwise it sounds like a bad drive.  If it's an ide type
> drive and it's bad it can often cause the other device on the
> controller  to malfunction until the offending device is removed.
>
> mylar
>
>
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