[mythtv-users] Fwd: LVM Problem -- Please Help

[John Drescher]

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From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LVM Problem -- Please Help
To: Tom+Dale <tdmyth at yahoo.com>


>
> Well, it was working (despite the loud clicking) before I shut down and
> disconnected it.  After booting up with the drive re-connected, it appears
> to be running physically, but the "Device /dev/sda not found." error was
> confusing to me as well.  I assume that this is why the other commands are
> not working.  Should linux have picked up the /dev/sda on boot once it was
> re-connected, despite my earlier mistake of booting once without it
> connected?
>
Spinning is not enough for a drive to work. To me it sounds like you
have a fatal drive head crash where one of the read/write heads have
hit the drive platter itself (normally the heads float on a very fine
layer of air just above the platter but not actually in contact) which
causes physical damage to the heads and the dirve platters. If the
damage is so severe the heads will not read anything.


John


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John M. Drescher