[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Kent Broestl]

Brian Miller wrote:
> What does the BIOS tell you when you boot up?  Does the system see the hard 
> drive?   Some newer systems have a drive check feature built into the BIOS.  
> If your system offers that, you might try running the hardware check on the 
> disk.
>   
Bios sees the drive. Fsck on boot recognizes that it is ext3. It tries 
to run fsck.ext3 -a /dev/hdf1 and fails (exit status 9).

When I tried to run a live cd, it understands that there is a drive 
there, but won't un/mount.
> Are there any lights on or associated with the disk?  What happens to those 
> lights when you issue the u/mount commands?
>
>   
No lights associated with this drive.