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There's definitely something wrong with the hardware here -- the SMC ethernet chip is not being detected, plus the hard drive data is getting corrupted.

Could be a bad cable, bad header, bad SMC chip, or other possibliities.



Mmm.. since the D7 line appears to be stuck high, I'm leaning towards a faulty SMC ethernet chip as the culprit now. But it does require some hardware debugging to make sure of that -- soldering and lifting pins and such.

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