Recovering a Bricked SSD with JTAG and a Raspberry Pi

Nice article.

Once you've found the JTAG port, is there a command to dump the entire code? How do you tell what architecture the chip is, or does the JTAG output tell you? Was the writer just halting the chip randomly and looking at what's at that memory location?

>SSD vendor (who shall remain nameless)

Doesn't this mean that no customers can secure erase their devices without bricking them? They should definitely be named...

> The result is a wall of rather intimidating errors indicating imminent doom with the disk is for all intensive purposes BRICKED.

    all intents and purposes.

Strange that they'd bother to disable the UART interface if the JTAG interface is open.

tldr: convinced the firmware to retry erase, instead of refusing to initialize.