'Intel replicates 'bricked SSD' bug, pledges fix'

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Hurray! And does the bottom of anyone else's G2 SSD look like it was slid across the floor of a machine shop prior to packaging?

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/06/intel_34nm_ssd_glitch_fix_update/

Intel has once again promised a fix for the glitchy firmware update tool it released for its 34nm solid-state drives last month. But it still can't say when the new version will arrive. The chip giant released new firmware for the drives on 26 October. The following day it pulled the software after a number of users running 64-bit Windows 7 systems alleged the software bricked their SSDs.

Yesterday, Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group wrote: "Intel has replicated the issue on 34nm SSDs - X25-M - and is working on a fix."
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Last paragraph of the article (emphasis mine):

Frost said that "no related issues have been reported by users who have successfully upgraded to 02HA firmware via the firmware upgrade tool", implying that it's not the firmware that's at fault but the loader software, which was released at version 1.3. ®
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Scares me that something like this even got past intel, they lacking on their QA department...
 
I guess it's the software which is used to flash the SSD with the new firmware. It's supposed to have checks and pre-loading stuff done to prepare the drive to receive the firmware properly.
 
If it's the loader software not the firmware that's at fault, why aren't windows XP, vista, and linux users lining up in droves complaining about bricked drives? Why is it exclusively windows 7?

And yes I know there was one dude who said he had a bricked drive on vista on the intel forums, but he's the only one I've ever seen so his report is suspect.
 
Xilikon said:
I guess it's the software which is used to flash the SSD with the new firmware. It's supposed to have checks and pre-loading stuff done to prepare the drive to receive the firmware properly.
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Isnt the "firmware upgrade tool," the loader software??? I don't see how that implication was made. I think the author was incorrect in his assessment of any implication.

Can someone get working on hacking the factory X-25M firmware so we can flash back? :D
 
schizo said:
If it's the loader software not the firmware that's at fault, why aren't windows XP, vista, and linux users lining up in droves complaining about bricked drives? Why is it exclusively windows 7?

And yes I know there was one dude who said he had a bricked drive on vista on the intel forums, but he's the only one I've ever seen so his report is suspect.
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yeah? there were also reports of bricked drives under Ubunctu and brand-new, unused ones. How about that?
 
I supposed I must have missed them, or they didn't come up in the first 2-3 days when I was rabidly following this story afraid that my own flash would turn on me.
 
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