I had this happen once. The drive appeared to be good, but in fact it was only half dead. It took about 2 weeks for it to completely die.
Michael Sullivan wrote: >My /dev/hda1 block device file is gone. I know I can create the >file /dev/hda1 with "touch", but how do I make it a block device file? > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list