Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

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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