How can I "ignore"a dying hard drive?

[Michael T. Richter]

On Tue, 2007-26-06 at 05:44 -0700, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:

> So now the drive is completely unformatted and not being used. Windows
> seems to be able to live with that just fine but Ubuntu is another story.



> Any suggestions as to how I can get Ubuntu to ignore the bad drive till
> I can get it replaced?


Unplug it?  You say it's unformatted and not in use, so why even bother
having it plugged into the controller?

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