Z2(x) - How to break your SSD in a few easy steps

Greetings,

This is a list of the brilliant moves I made in breaking my Z2's 512GB SSD. If somebody know how to fix this, please let me know.

I'm not claiming that anybody or anything is at fault here besides myself, so keep the "dumb@ss" and "if it ain't broke" comments to a minimum. I am the aforementioned expletive and I like to tinker with stuff.

Sooooo, for no good reason, I dedided to run a SECURE_ERASE on my new and non-write attenuated 1/2 TB SSD sandwich.

Steps I followed:

• Downloaded PartedMagic with Unetbootin and installed it to a USB stick
• Broke the RAID0 volume via the Intel Option ROM
• Booted into PartedMagic
• Ran the "Erase Disk" program
  • Executed the command on the secondary SSD - worked fine
  • Re-ran the application, selected the primary drive
  • I had to put the machine to sleep to unlock this drive - Worked as expected

And now I have two SSD drives that are only visible via Linux and have BLANK serial numbers. I am unable to create partitions in any OS. Additionally, the Intel Option ROM no longer loads at all with these drives.

I've swapped the SSD's with a new pair and the machine works perfectly. The Intel Option ROM works fine with the new drives and identical BIOS settings.

I've run manual passes with hdparm which seem to complete without error, but the condition persists. I've checked and re-checked the security settings and everything looks OK.

I've tried doing a system recovery, but it errors out as it attempts to format/partition the drives.

Good times indeed.

 

^does the old fashioned low-level format work for SSD's?

 

Tried it, no joy

 

I suppose you suddenly erased additional nand chip which had smth like firmware info or smth. Maybe it is possible to fix it using chip programmator but it will be cheap work only if you have friends in repair center. And Also I suppose you will need to use another SSD which is in working condition.

 

Hey Zoinks,

has been a long time since I lurked around here the last time since I was off in Brazil, first thread that I read with bad news - damn.

Vamos lá. Please boot a linux and paste the hdparm output

Code:

hdparm -I /dev/sda

 

I will a bit later. Playing with some new shiny objects. Sure hope I don't break this stuff

LSI SAS 9265-8i
4x OCZ Vertex 3 120GB's
4x WD vRaptor 600GB's

I have a new moboard too, but I can't bring myself to reseat my CPU chiller, so storage upgrades are the limits to this weekend's project.

The Vertex's drives seem to be cooking pretty well, but I only have 2 SATAIII channels on my moboard so it is running in mixed mode, but all 4 are in a RAID0 set.



Should get some better numbers with 6\GB goodness all around. The dual-core ROC on the controller should make things a bit peppier too. 1GB of DDR3 cache for the RAID5 set on the vRaptors should be good at crunching VM's too.