[PLUG] I killed my desktop

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:33:40 -0700
Dale Snell <ddsnell at frontier.com> dijo:

>On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:02:51 -0700
>John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Having discovered that I could hot-plug the other 320 GB drive I
>> tried it with the 1 TB drive. But the result was not what I hoped
>> for. The disk light came on and stayed on continuously and Xubuntu
>> did not mount the drive. I don't know what this means, and since the
>> drive is not visible to Xubuntu, or even the BIOS, there is no way
>> to do diagnostics on it. The only thing I can think of to try is to
>> install it in another desktop computer with SATA ports to see if it
>> is recognized. 
>
>Download and install the "iotop" package.  You'll have to run it as
>root, but it should tell you what process is hogging the drive.  The
>drive is probably bad, but it doesn't hurt to check.

I installed iotop, but it didn't show any disk activity at all for
anything but the two 320 GB drives. I suspect that is because the drive
is not recognized, even in the BIOS. The drive doesn't exist.