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another hard drive failure story

Subject: another hard drive failure story
From: sethg-Dp9fwfP21SfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org (Seth Gordon)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:05:00 -0400
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jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Have you tried disconnecting the dvd drive and using that port? Can boot from a usb drive to do a full drive image, rather than a cd.  other option would be a sata to usb cable, not free but handy to have.

I did try plugging one of the drives (I think it was the bad one) into 
ATA3 as well, and it was still invisible.  I suppose if ATA2 could be 
busted, then ATA2+ATA3 could be busted....

And of course the bad drive started to go south while it was still 
plugged in to ATA0.

References:
- another hard drive failure story
  - From: jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org (jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org)

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