From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 21:23:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0586F16A41F; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D9213C46C; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6MKxpRN051664; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:59:51 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:59:51 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <200707221437.l6MEbCCP039856@lava.sentex.ca> Message-ID: <20070723005933.Y51455@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <46A35EE6.6030902@incunabulum.net> <200707221437.l6MEbCCP039856@lava.sentex.ca> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:59:51 +0400 (MSD) Cc: Bruce M Simpson , FreeBSD stable , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Subject: Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:23:01 -0000 On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: MT> At 09:43 AM 7/22/2007, Bruce M Simpson wrote: MT> > I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own diag tools MT> > which all report the drive is OK (a full captive surface test). I see MT> > nothing untoward in the SMART info pages. MT> MT> Hi Bruce, MT> These symptoms (the OS reporting errors, the drive saying all A-OK) MT> remind me of a bad cable/connector. Have you tried a new cable ? Hmm, in a laptop? ;) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------