Drive failure and ASUS

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>]

Greetings;

The only way I can get this box to boot is to disconnect the data cable on a 
drive with 121 badblocks as somehow ASUS and JMicron-pata all seem to think 
its /dev/sda when hooked up, and it is no longer bootable.  I'm presently 
booted from a sata drive on that interface, which this ASUS board has about 8 
of.

So I've booted with the data cable off, and hooked it up once booted.  Unforch 
there seems to be no discovery of its presence.

No /dev/sdd stuff was created when I plugged the data cable into the drive.

The install is the August 2008 F8 respin and is uptodate.

How can I make the system aware that it is now there?  It has about 40 Gb of 
data I'd like to recover if I can.

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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