[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Josh Glover]

On 08/12/06, David McGlone <dlmcglone at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 07 December 2006 16:07, Jim wrote:
>
> > 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.

Do you think that when Linux boots, the physical position of the head
on the drive makes the kernel think that it is mounted? I would allow
a slight possibility of that based on a very odd bug, but that is
certainly not the way the kernel is designed to work.

-Josh