Re: Flaky SSD or issue with kernel
On 08/04/2013 12:19 PM, Chris Boot wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 21:28, Brian Paterni wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I've experienced this twice now. Once yesterday and again today. What
>> happens is, out of the blue, the system will get out of whack. Programs
>> will unexpectedly stall or shutdown, then all of a sudden the system is
>> no longer usable, and any attempt to start another process or execute
>> basic commands results in a segfault or IO error. The only thing that
>> sets the system straight again is a cold reboot.
>>
>> I did not send a bug report because I'm starting to think it is a
>> hardware problem, but I wanted to ask here for a second opinion anyway
>> in the hopes it might be some kernel issue.
>>
>> SSD is a Crucial M4-CT128M4SSD2
>>
>> Attached should be a portion of the kernel/syslog related to the problem.
>>
>> Please let me know what you think
>>
>
> What firmware version do you have on your SSD? The M4 series were
> plagued by bad firmware until fairly recently, and your symptoms sound
> very much like what I experienced myself. Please make sure you are on at
> least 040H firmware, which fixes the issue.
Yeah, after searching around a bit, I found out that the firmware on
these drives could be updated. In fact, I had had 010G installed. Now
the newest revision appears to be 070H. I updated to that version and
everything seems to be working fine so far.
For the time being firmware can be found at:
http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx
http://www.crucial.com/firmware/m4/070H/ISO_crucial-c400.070H.07.00.zip
Thank you for your help Chris! :)
>
> HTH,
> Chris
>
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