>From the Knoppix desktop I opened a command box and entered dmesg - nothing happened. I clicked on the hdb1 icon and a window to the sick drive opened (no files showed). Again I opened a command box and entered dmesg and clicked run and got "could not run the specified command". With a Mandrake drive as master, entering a command box and dmesg returned nothing. Am I doing this correctly? BTW when Mandrake booted it offered to configure the sick drive in several formats - EXT3, Fat 32. I declined and cancel out of that. Correct? Knoppix shows hdb icon on the desktop, while I only see evidence of it in Mandrake if I run Configure Hardware. It shows the drive, but I think I should not configure it. I suspect this all does not sound good, thanks for direction. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Crumley" <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Can This Drive be Resurrected? > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:19:27PM -0500, Lawrence Clemens wrote: > > Background: I thoughtlessly smoked my wife's friend's HD by reversing the > > power plug to the drive. Although I have reached geezerhood status, I still > > do stupid things. I also volunteer at rehabbing computer donations for a > > non-profit, and I keep an eye on linux as a possible low cost operating > > system for our low-income, computer unsavvy clients. But as you know > > everything we get is Windows based. > > <snip much info> > > I haven't seen any recent response to you, so let me just make a > quick comment. My guess is that the drive is fried. My guess is > that the drive isn't even recognized when you boot-up. To be > sure boot again either with Knoppix, or whatever distro you ended > up installing. Then, right after booting run "dmesg" and send > the results to the list. > > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list