Thanks for everyone's responses.
Given that this drive may well be lying in its SMART registers, I've
just ordered a new drive. Newer IBM/Lenovo machines appear to complain
if you don't use Hitachi GST drives, so I ordered one of those to be on
the safe side, as well as to preserve the resale
At 04:59 PM 7/22/2007, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote:
OK)
MT> remind me of a bad cable/connector. Have you tried a new cable ?
Hmm, in a laptop? ;)
Details :) Dirty or weak connection point ? If the controller was
working well up until this point, it does
Bruce M Simpson wrote:
Hi,
My laptop drive might be dying. It is a Samsung MP0804H which I have
used for around 28 months without issue.
Every now and then it will click and sound as though it is thermally
recalibrating itself.
I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own
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? ;)
I've had a similar problem with a Dell notebook. There is absolutely
nothing wrong with the hard drive (in fac
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>
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
