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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:59:51 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.
Message-ID:  <20070723005933.Y51455@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200707221437.l6MEbCCP039856@lava.sentex.ca>
References:  <46A35EE6.6030902@incunabulum.net> <200707221437.l6MEbCCP039856@lava.sentex.ca>

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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]
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