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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