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Subject: Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.
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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