I dont know what your problem is here, so I cant be of much help.
Originally Posted by HB13DISH  Do I need to physically disconnect the HDD in order to neutralize the HDD completely from the system? |
For testing, You can unmount the hard disk, This would be equivalent to disconnecting it (almost).
Run the following command in telnet,
That should do it.
To remount the disk without having to reboot.
Code:
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /hdd