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X25-m SSD 160gb only 8mb remain after shutdown
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06-27-2009 01:04 AM
I have used this drive for 2 days now in my MacBook Pro (early 2008). Before I installed anything I successfully updated the firmware to the latest release (045C8820) and at last I was very happy with the drive's performance.
Now, after a restart the drive seems to be broken, in system profiler the drive's capacity is 8mb, modell stays INTEL SSDSA2MH160G1GC but now the strange part-> serial is shown as BAD_CTX.
Well, anyone has an idea? Perhaps a way to reset the drive or is it broken?
Of course this happens on saturday, 1 day before my vacation
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08-24-2011 06:37 PM
Before performing any update READ ME notes this firmware is for E-seires drives ONLY . If you tried to install it you now have desktop paper weight.
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06-27-2009 06:23 AM
The best solution is to RMA the drive or INTEL will never fix their buggy firmware or hardware. It is possible that one of flash chip is partially or fully dead, but we don't have documentation to read what BAD_CTX means. The same about software tools for intel SSDs - we must use third-party tools to analyze and fix it, thats not good.
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07-06-2009 04:59 AM
Ich war jetzt eine Woche im Urlaub und habe die Platte noch einmal angeschlossen.... geht jetzt wieder... nach einen Neustart hatte Sie aber wieder das gleiche Problem, scheint also erst nach Anlaufzeit aufzutreten.
Intel will von einer RMA noch nix wissen, erst nach 30 Tagen kann ich die über die abwickeln (nach Angabe aller Daten wurde mir das nach 20 minuten am Telefon mitgeteilt), jetzt muss ich also über den Händler anfragen... wirklich schade und Zeitaufwendig
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07-06-2009 07:26 AM
As I understood you have problems with RMA....
Have you tried to clear the drive with HDDERASE 3.3 ? As posted http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2292224
This solution is worked for me.
If you have ANY additional information from Intel please post it here! My drive crashed 4 times (with badblocks) but after erasing (hdderase 3.3) no more crashes, more then 2 month uptime 24h/day 7days/week....
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07-07-2009 09:13 AM
After Intel's support offer: wait until the drive is older than 30 days and we fix it within another 30 days
or contact your dealer for support. I choose to start a RMA at http://hoh.de hoh.de . I did not try to erase the drive with hdderase, since I seems to work without any problem for hours, but after a restart (power-off) it stops again.... wait 2-3 hours.... is works again, until the next restart.
So it is very likely to be a hardware-issue.
Hopefully I will get a working replacement-drive soon 😃
