I've got a server that just arrived this morning from another DC that didn't want to troubleshoot, it's got a 13GB West Digital HD in it that's failed somehow. I've taken it out of the machine and attempted to access it on another box, but when I try to mount it I get the ol'

mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device

which is usually indicative of a hardware issue. It seems to spin up fine, but makes a clicking sound every few seconds. This drive has a Linux ext2 filesystem - any ideas? I'm about to take it down the street to a data recovery service, but thought someone might have some useful pointers before we spend the big $$.

Any input appreciated.

Brandon

also called the click of death when refered to zip disks. My experience, its gone, or its going to be gone soon..

what davidb said.
clicking on HD=gone

*sigh*

Thanks for your help. :)

Brandon