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On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk |
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> for this to work? |
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> If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also |
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> work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the |
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> disk from which grub managed to boot)? |
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I suspect that may be dependent on the nature of the failure. For |
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example, if /boot is corrupted, the BIOS will still boot from the broken |
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disk's MBR before failing later. |
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Most BIOSes now enable you to disable individual SATA ports, so you could |
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disappear the disk without unplugging it, although I'm not sure why you'd |
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want to leave a broken disk in the box. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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