[plug] Gentoo - hdc & hdd dissappeared

[Shannon Carver]

Yea, after that it appears one of my trusty old drives has bit the 
dust.  It had a good run anyway.. It was a 60GB WD Caviar bought in 
2001, that had been run in 4xRAID0 software RAID since then.  It's only 
recently that I've chopped up the array and used them as single drives.. 
Probably a good thing, considering.

So!  Rule for PLUG.. Check hardware first

Cheers guys

Peter F Bradshaw wrote:

>Hi Shannon;
>
>Step one would have to be to check whether the drives show up in BIOS.
>My guess is that they will not. If they do not then it is a hardware
>problem. In this case the most likely case is the failure of one of the
>drives.
>
>On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Shannon Carver wrote:
>
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>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>I've just got home after doing a major emerge last night, to find that
>>my hdc and hdd have gone walkies.
>>
>>I get:
>>VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
>>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>>VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
>>    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>>    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>>Probing IDE interface ide0...
>>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
>>input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
>>hda: WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0, ATA DISK drive
>>hdb: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>>Probing IDE interface ide1...
>>ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
>>Probing IDE interface ide1...
>>ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
>>hda: max request size: 1024KiB
>>hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63,
>>UDMA(100)
>>hda: cache flushes supported
>> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
>>hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>>
>>So, I'm not sure if my two drives have simultaneously shat themselves or
>>what.  The fact that the "ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !"
>>shows up, probably isn't a good sign.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Shannon
>>    
>>
>
>Cheers
>
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