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Intel SSD: Revision 3

Intel SSD died

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smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3H
Serial Number: BAD_CTX 00000136
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001517 a6be8caac
Firmware Version: 4PC10365
User Capacity: 8,388,608 bytes [8.38 MB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Sat Apr 27 17:23:39 2019 CEST
SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART Enable failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.


dpavlin@x200:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:

Model=INTEL SSDSA2BW160G3H, FwRev=4PC10365, SerialNo=BAD_CTX 00000136
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=1
CurCHS=16/16/63, CurSects=16128, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16384
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6,7

* signifies the current active mode

dpavlin@x200:~/intel-ssd$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc > smartctl.1
dpavlin@x200:~/intel-ssd$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdc > hdparm-i.1
dpavlin@x200:~/intel-ssd$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc > hdparm-I.1



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Internet visdom is that it's corrupted translation table and that secure erase or firmware update might help.

^ secure erase

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

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dpavlin@x200:~/intel-ssd$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep frozen
not frozen

# ok

root@x200:/home/dpavlin/intel-ssd# hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass Eins /dev/sdc
security_password: "Eins"

/dev/sdc:
Issuing SECURITY_SET_PASS command, password="Eins", user=user, mode=high

root@x200:/home/dpavlin/intel-ssd# hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep -C 3 enabled
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
enabled
not locked
not frozen
not expired: security count

root@x200:/home/dpavlin/intel-ssd# time hdparm --user-master u --security-erase Eins /dev/sdc
security_password: "Eins"

/dev/sdc:
Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="Eins", user=user

real 0m19.285s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.004s

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^ firmware update

https://blog.cihar.com/archives/2012/07/13/intel-ssd-firmware-update-linux/

But modified for recent Debian kernels

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28749/Intel-SSD-Firmware-Update-Tool?v=t

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dpavlin@x200:~$ unzip FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7.zip -d FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7

dpavlin@x200:~/FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7$ sudo apt install grub-imageboot

dpavlin@x200:~/FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7$ cat /etc/default/grub-imageboot
# Where to find the iso/floppy images

IMAGES="/boot/images"

# You can override the boot options for iso/floppy images here
# see http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK for details

#IMAGEOPTS="rawimg"
#ISOOPTS="iso"

dpavlin@x200:~/FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7$ . /etc/default/grub-imageboot ; sudo mkdir -v $IMAGES
mkdir: created directory '/boot/images'

dpavlin@x200:~/FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7$ sudo cp -v issdfut_64_3.0.7.iso /boot/images/
'issdfut_64_3.0.7.iso' -> '/boot/images/issdfut_64_3.0.7.iso'

dpavlin@x200:~/FirmwareUpdateTool_v3_0_7$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-4-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-4-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-2-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-2-amd64
Found memdisk: /boot/memdisk
Found iso image: /boot/images/issdfut_64_3.0.7.iso
done

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