From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Drive failure and ASUS Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:25:22 +0900 Message-ID: <492A3AC2.5020801@kernel.org> References: <200811220901.33596.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <4928B36B.5030005@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:42895 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698AbYKXFZ2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:25:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4928B36B.5030005@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Robert Hancock wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> 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. > > The bad disk is PATA? > >> >> 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. echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan > Hotplug isn't supported with PATA, so you shouldn't really try that. > Fedora installs usually use labels for the disk partitions, so it > shouldn't matter what device node the disk gets detected as? It isn't but if you're willing to accept the risk of frying the controller and/or the drive, it works. I sometimes do that which sometimes makes the whole machine shut off instantly. :-) -- tejun