is disk dead?

[Anton Sayetsky]

2013/10/16 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk>:
> >From terje at elde.net Wed Oct 16 10:02:18 2013
>>
>>On 16. okt. 2013, at 10:51, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Anything else I can try?
>>
>>smartctl -a /dev/da2
>
> I guess it is dead:
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/da2
> smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT ia64] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Vendor:               HP 73.4G
> Product:              ST373454LC
> Revision:             HPC2
> Logical Unit id:      0x50011c60021f59b4
> Serial number:        3KP07AZJ00007534SDRH
> Device type:          disk
> Local Time is:        Wed Oct 16 10:07:33 2013 BST
> device is NOT READY (e.g. spun down, busy)
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
> #
>
> Thanks
>
> Anton
Looks like disk is really dead. It failed to start spindle, so READY
flag cannot be set.