btamine.blogg.se - Sandforce mptool

SSD needs to be switched into lets say "factory mode" to talk with MP tool.

Try to boot it - you shoud get Fedora desktop with MpTool icon on the desktop, shut it down.

Write the image onto USB drive (for example using "dd if=mptool_mp2_v1-1-2.img of=/dev/sdX" replacing sdX with your USB drive ofcourse).

Unpack mptool rar(s) to get mptool_mp2_v1-1-2.img.

mptool_mp2_ (dunno why is listed twice on that google drive, both files are the same, download just one).

Download MP Tool - I downloaded it from mirror mentioned above -, download these files:.

- mptool mirror - part1.rar is showing twice and both are excatly same, you need just one of them.

- Russian forum with link to instructions, mptool download.

- forum page where I found following links.

Googling around I found these usefull links: !!! ALL DATA PRESENT ON THE SSD WILL GET LOST BY FOLLOWING STEPS DESCRIBED BELLOW !!! !!! WARNING - this procedure describes how to FIX THE SSD without care of any data present on the drive !!! I get such SSD from my friend for free, he told me "take it or it is going into trash", so I decided try to fix it - at least just for fun. You can find a lot of such complains around the web:

The SSD completely diappears form PC including BIOS (not beiing detected at all). There was a bug in Sandforce controller firmware that cause SSD locks itself usually (but not always) after sleep/hybernate and wakeup of OS occurs.

15:50 | tags: SSD SandForce SF 1222 The problem