[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 16:07, Jim wrote:
> Kent Broestl wrote:
> > if it will not unmount, I think the read/write head is stuck in the
> > position it was in when it got kicked.

Am I intentionally targeted for attack here?

> This is _very_ unlikely. If the head is stuck, one would not
> get far enough for it to be considered mounted.

If it was mounted when it got kicked and the head became stuck it will not 
unmount because the head cannot move back to "home" therefore the system 
still thinks it mounted.  I don't  think thats unlikely at all.

> Time to explore smartctl.

Maybe an A+ Cert book too.


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David M.