[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[David McGlone]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:36, Kent Broestl wrote:
> 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.

if it will not unmount, I think the read/write head is stuck in the position 
it was in when it got kicked. IMHO no amount of software testing will do any 
good because the read/write head isn't moving.
-- 
David M.