>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.
>
> --
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