[ale] OT: HW failure

[Calvin Harrigan]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 01:24 pm, Jeff Rose wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I recently experienced the sting of hard drive failure.  Luckily I noticed
> the drive making funny noises and was able to back up all my essential
> data.  I have installed Slackware 9.1 on an older hard drive.  I decided
> since RH was forcing my hand, I'd try something a little different.  I'm
> loving Slackware so far.  Very intuitive.  Anyway, the failed hd is
> recognized by my BIOS but linux is unable to talk to it.  It makes loud
> clicking noises.  Is there any hope for this thing?  I'm not a hw guy.  I
> was just hoping to salvage it because it is 60 GB.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Rose

What brand is it?  Usually there are some utilities from maxtor, seagate, and 
wd that can 'restore' your drive by marking/remapping bad sectors.  Search 
the respective websites.  Mind you these utilities as far as I know are for 
IDE drives.  Not sure about scsi.


Calvin...