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Is 320 firmware buggy?
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06-01-2011 02:34 PM
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/do-ssd-drives-really-fail-lot-t4035508.html http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/do-ssd-drives-really-fail-lot-t4035508.html
Be wary of the new Intel SSD 320 series. Currently, there's a bug in the
controller that can cause the device to revert to 8MB during a power failure. AFAIK they have not yet publicly announced it, and won't have a firmware fix ready for release until the end of July. We had an SSD 320 600GB 2.5" SATA drive in for evaluation from our Intel rep. I was able to kill it in two or three hours by power cycling it. Apparently (according to the Intel rep) when the power failure is happening, the SSD device tries to reconnect with the SATA port instead of initiating a proper shutdown. Something to do with interrupt priority being higher for reconnection rather than a proper shutdown.I don't know how much truth is to this post. Has there been any official acknowledgement of this problem?
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07-23-2011 05:07 AM
For what it's worth, with regards to uses who are willing to try things within reason, giving the Secure Erase option a shot is something I'd recommend as well.
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07-23-2011 05:53 AM
Well, the toolbox looked good, felt good, didn't work in two of my systems, two netbooks and a laptop, but in all fairness it did what it was supposed to do : erase the wooping 8m of my 2 dead SSD's
At least I could fit DOS 6.2 in one of them and use it as a boot disk...absolutely brilliant equipment.
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07-23-2011 11:52 AM
That wasn't a good idea to use Intel toolbox to secure erase "8mb bug"-SSDs
I have no luck using it also. I have a lot of problems using hdderase too, it does not working correctly with most of new sata controllers.
Please use any known good linux livecd, like ubuntu, to run secure erase on drive.
Sometimes it wants to be erased and power-cycled more than one time.
You can also try JW suggestion /message/133362# 133362 http://communities.intel.com/message/133362# 133362
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07-23-2011 12:48 PM
I believe that a lot of motherboards block HDDErase on purpose, to prevent consumers from accidentially wiping out their drive. I have not gotten it to work on any of my motherboards (Asus and Intel).
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07-23-2011 12:55 PM
I think you are talking about "security frozen" that is described here https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase
And for me it is not the main problem with hdderase. Only old version 3.2 is "Intel compatible" and it does not find ssd if mainboard have more then one ATA or SATA controller, even disabled in BIOS it does not help in my case. For some notebooks you can't disable AHCI mode in BIOS and hdderase will never work correctly.
