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Samsung M40 (MP0804H) Spins up, then retries to init forever

March 8th, 2008, 16:35

Hi all,

can anyone make a rough estimation on the extent of this failure? The HDD has been grilled within an overheated notebook and now refuses stop being BSY. What I'd like to know is: is this probably a common fault with this models, would it probably involve electronics, mech/platters, or both?
Do the Samsungs have a service mode like Seagates to make them talk a bit about their problems via serial console?

regards
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