> I would try to unplung/replug the drive. I already did that.
> I would also look at SMART datas (using the smartmontool package, atactl from > 4.0 won't report all details). OK, I'll re-attach the drive to another machine. I already did attach it to a desktop machine to check it does spin up (you can't tell in the server room because of the ambient noise) and it started to boot.