is disk dead?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From terje at elde.net Wed Oct 16 10:02:18 2013
>
>On 16. okt. 2013, at 10:51, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Anything else I can try?
>
>smartctl -a /dev/da2

I guess it is dead:

# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/da2
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT ia64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               HP 73.4G
Product:              ST373454LC
Revision:             HPC2
Logical Unit id:      0x50011c60021f59b4
Serial number:        3KP07AZJ00007534SDRH
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Wed Oct 16 10:07:33 2013 BST
device is NOT READY (e.g. spun down, busy)
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
# 

Thanks

Anton