is disk dead?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From vsjcfm at gmail.com Wed Oct 16 11:00:11 2013
>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.

Thank you

Anton