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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:37:00 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.
Message-ID:  <200707221437.l6MEbCCP039856@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <46A35EE6.6030902@incunabulum.net>
References:  <46A35EE6.6030902@incunabulum.net>

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At 09:43 AM 7/22/2007, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own diag 
>tools which all report the drive is OK (a full captive surface 
>test). I see nothing untoward in the SMART info pages.

Hi Bruce,
         These symptoms (the OS reporting errors, the drive saying 
all A-OK) remind me of a bad cable/connector.  Have you tried a new cable ?

         ---Mike 




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