Looks like it may be AHCI related, after every ghost restore my drive would re-corrupt after first reboot. This time after restore I set the bios to compatibility SATA only mode instead of Enhance IDE, or Enhanced AHCI mode. Now even though I have the end-to-end SMART error I can boot up and the...
Looks like it may be AHCI related, after every ghost restore my drive would re-corrupt after first reboot. This time after restore I set the bios to compatibility SATA only mode instead of Enhance IDE, or Enhanced AHCI mode. Now even though I have the end-to-end SMART error I can boot up and the...
My bad upgrade was on a Asus server motherboard, on a Windows Server 2008 x64 R2 system upgraded from Server 2008, so no 100mb partition here. Another odd thing is if I put the drive in IDE mode smart reports a bad drive, but if I put in in AHCI mode SMART reports everything is A-OK, even though...
Here's the old firmware:
http://www.kbench.com/software/hit.jsp?no=35840
But it refuses to flash older firmware on a device with newer firmware. Anyone able to do anything with this to force a downgrade?
Ran the update on two 160gb G2 drives on two separate systems. On the Dell D630 Laptop the update ran fine. The other on a Dual Xeon server running Server 2008 R2 corrupted after reboot with the same failure/bad SMART data as described many times in this thread.
Ran the update on two 160gb G2 drives on two separate systems. On the Dell D630 Laptop the update ran fine. The other on a Dual Xeon server running Server 2008 R2 corrupted after reboot with the same failure/bad SMART data as described many times in this thread.
Applying a Secure Erase across the drive isn't the same as writing 0's across the drive or formating the drive. A secure erase marks each SSD cell as empty. Read up on TRIM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29
to find out why a deleted or written to SSD cell isn't the same as...
Google came up with nothing?
You can get the latest verison of HDDErase here:
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
Hardware compatibility for HDDErase is pretty mediocre, and didn't work on the three motherboards I have around me. I instead used hdparm from an Ubuntu 9.04...