Does this explain why I often can access my 'dead' SSDs with my Ubuntu install rather than Windows?
I havent run into this issue for ~4 years, so I'm not sure if this is a solved problem or I got lucky a few years back.
I havent run into this issue for ~4 years, so I'm not sure if this is a solved problem or I got lucky a few years back.
I haven't had a dead SSD problem in a while though, so I don't know how common firmware issues are now.
Sometimes the dead SSDs will respond to a handful of commands anyway, meaning that you can attempt a firmware upgrade or reset. That’s the lucky case. But in the majority of cases I’ve seen, the firmware/controller goes into some hard lockup where it no longer processes SATA commands at all. I wish these things had JTAG ports...