External Hard drive

[Dick Davies]

* Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker at yahoo.com> [1056 19:56]:
> I have been using this 6 year old laptop as a test bed for the different 
> versions of Linux and FreeBSD. (The built-in CD ROM is almost worn out.) 
> I just put v5.2.1 back on this laptop. It doesn't want to recognize this 
> hard drive. I have checked the 'dmesg' and can't see any mention of this 
> connection. I can connect and disconnect this drive while the system is 
> running and not get any messages. I have ssh running and it is obviously 
> doing something to the drive since I hear the drive clicking on/off. In 
> fact, it sounds like a clock. (I am constantly getting messages from ssh.)

Drive has died? Can you see it under winders?

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