On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 08:53:54 -0700 William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My internal 2 tb SSD has suddenly become "locked"; even though I myself didn't > lock it. The good people at Mc$haft started nagging me about enabling UEFI > partitioning, but I had managed to get round that by using grub instead. > > [...] > > This newer SSD, where for the past couple > years I have had my system installed, been running fine, will not boot at > all. Is this a Samsung SSD? The reason I ask is that they've had issues recently: some 970/980/990 SSDs were shipped with bad firmware that causes them to age and die prematurely. A firmware update was published, but it only prevents further premature aging and doesn't fix drives that have already died, from what I understand. (There are also rumours of some batches of 870 EVOs being flaky, but I don't think that was ever confirmed by the manufacturer.) If your drive is one of the affected Samsung models, you may be out of luck, although your description of the failure doesn't match the most common manifestation of this issue, which has the drive dropping to read-only. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
