ok! On the Toshiba Satellite A70, this is a *** Hardware Problem ***
I found an article on how to disassemble this baby (why are laptops so hard to take apart?) and when I got down to the cpu cooler, there were a couple of large gray dust bunnies snarling and yappping at me. I used up most of a can of dust-off (R) and reassembled with new heat sink goop and my first test was to copy over my Music directory... which succeeded!!! So I am blithely assuming something similar is true with the Dell, and one day I will disassemble it for cleaning as well. ** Changed in: libatasmart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758384 Title: natty beta-1, beta-2 hangs during copy from usb disk and from ftp -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs