On Saturday 03 March 2007 20:11, Ron Youvan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have a 80 Gig (hda) and 40 (hdd) Gig drive in this confuser running
> Slackware 10.0 (either drive bootable as is my norm) and the 40 Gig is
> becoming slow to spin up (Yes I know it needs replaced) frequently by
> the time the 80 Gig is past checking (as it boots) the 40 Gig is operable,
> but the 80 Gig couldn't mount the 40, and from then on the 40 Gig is
> "not a block device."
>
> Does anyone know how to make the former "not a block device" into
> a "block device"?
It sounds like the drive has gone beyond being accessable. Can you boot from
it?
--Steve Szmidt
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