second ide hard drive - toast?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Redmond Militante <r-militante at northwestern.edu> writes:

> on my home computer, i was mounting a second ide hdd using this line in my fstab
> 
> /dev/ad1c               /mnt/drive2     ufs     rw              1       1
> 
> i tried to boot the machine today, it hung while trying to mount /dev/ad1c.  i tried fsck, it couldn't read the drive.  only way i could get the machine to boot was to uncomment the above fstab line.
> 
> when i run dmesg, it shows me ad0 but not ad1.  i try to run 'fdisk /dev/ad1' or 'fdisk /dev/ad1c' and i get the message 'device not configured'
> 
> did this drive just die on me?  any tips on how to recover?

If it's not detected at all, it's likely to be a controller or cable
failure.  Check those things first, since they're less of a problem to
solve.  [Or, conversely, put the disk in another machine to see if
it's okay.]