On Saturday 07 September 2024 10:26:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > 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.) Indeed yes, I believe that it is a Samsung 970 SSD. (I need to shut down the machine and take it apart to look, but I believe it's one of those.) Going to dig out my SATA/SSD tool, similar to that to which Felix gave a link -- and, if it fits my newer SSD -- I will be better prepared. It may be that I will need an adapter, or even need to buy a new one of these tools, but I was imagining that I might have to do that anyway. If this tool works, at least with an adapter, that will be a simple and cheap fix, just requires a bit of walking and digging, and I need the exercise. > > 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 More later. Bill ____________________________________________________ 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
