another hard drive failure story

[galsterm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Matt Galster)]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Seth Gordon<sethg-Dp9fwfP21SfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Nooo! ?If I plugged the new drive into the motherboard's ATA0 socket and
> the old one into ATA2 (ATA1 being the DVD-ROM drive), then it would boot
> from the new drive and the old drive was completely invisible to the
> system; it didn't show up in the dmesg output or even the BIOS screen.
> If I plugged the old drive into ATA0 and the new drive into ATA2, then
> the new drive was invisible to the BIOS, and the old drive... booted far
> enough to say "I can't mount the root partition, here's a busybox
> prompt, good luck."
>

Unplug the CD and plug one of the drives in there?  Perhaps the ATA2
isn't really there.

MEG