From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Drive failure and ASUS Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:01:33 -0500 Message-ID: <200811220901.33596.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f11.google.com ([209.85.217.11]:48331 "EHLO mail-gx0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757968AbYKVOBj (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:01:39 -0500 Received: by gxk4 with SMTP id 4so1211906gxk.13 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:01:37 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Birds are entangled by their feet and men by their tongues.