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Offline martonmiklosTopic starter

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2017, 08:13:09 pm »
Thanks man!  :-+

I have managed to get the mentioned drive back to life.

Side notes:
- The mptool uses some older Fedora distribution, on newer systems (NVIDIA quadro GPU in my case) you might get black screen or 640*480 resolution where you cannot access the buttons properly. Use an older preferably Intel GPU based system (I have used an old Core2 DUO based HP notebook)
- I have used esata adapter which made the retry cycles easy.
- I have wasted a lot of time because I have tried to recover my drive with a blank IIC EEPROM (in this mode it came up in mfg mode by default). I have had to flash back the malformed (bad) contents, put to MFG mode with the P8-P9 jumper and then it went smootly. This particulary breaks the theory that the drive is stopped due the malformed I2C chip contents.
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #26 on: May 26, 2017, 08:03:18 am »
Hi, i've tried to resurrect my OCZ Vertex 2 following the provided instructions but I can’t complete the entire procedure. Maybe I do something wrong...
Here below what I’ve done:
- PC powered off;
- Disconnected optical drives and disks except the SSD to restore;
- Switch on the PC while shorting P8-P9 for few seconds (-> green light with a single flash of red light);
- SSD detected by BIOS as “Sandforce”;
- Boot from Live USB;
   During boot process, some some errors appear:
      ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
      ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
      ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
      ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
 
When I launch MPTool from the Desktop an error appears in the background terminal window:
      insmod: error inserting ‘./ssdt_driver.ko’: -1 Operation not permitted
 
Then I follow the procedure successfully until step 11. In step 12, in the "Manufacturing Config" tab, the “Config Name” field is empty, no option available and the mask is disabled, only the buttons at the bottom are available (Update license, etc…).
 
Can someone give me some hint?
Thank you in advance!
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #27 on: May 26, 2017, 03:59:45 pm »
Hi,

When I did the recovery I have soldered a jumper to the P8-9 and only removed when the recovery procedure was at the rebooting drive stage.
The ata2 errors in the dmesg are normal I think (I also have had a few).

I do not remember to the "operation is not permitted" error.

On the manufacturing config tab you have to browse for the pkg file generated in the previous steps. Once you have loaded it it will enable the rest of the widgets.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2017, 09:51:00 pm »
I had one of these OCZ drives which bricked as well. Luckily it was in guarantee but I would stay away now. Having realised the hard way that consumer SSDs can corrupt their internal state during unexpected power down, i've now moved to use the datacentre ranges of SSDs (Intel & Samsung) which have 'supercapacitors' that provide backup power for long enough to complete in-flight writes. These are more expensive but they also have better reliability and typically better performance as well.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #29 on: June 01, 2017, 02:06:28 pm »
Hello
I want unbrick my old ocz vertex 2.
Anyone can reupload mptool ? Cause this link http://pan.baidu.com/s/1m9Oia is dead.
Edit:
By vpn link is works.
I made mirror:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B42B8K8c0zs_MFp1eS1MUnRWYUE?usp=sharing
« Last Edit: June 02, 2017, 04:36:28 pm by groszexxx »
 
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #30 on: June 12, 2017, 05:35:47 pm »
If anyone would have a similar tool for the SF-22xx family and would be able to share it I would deeply appericiate!
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2017, 07:19:04 am »
I've found something...I hope this can help you.

https://yadi.sk/d/ArxahL0xvikaS

 
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #32 on: June 26, 2017, 08:52:08 pm »
Hi,
I have PCB-0025-X01
and not found P8 e P9 to solder!
and.... I try to connect serial tag but nothing! |O
any help?
thanks
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #33 on: November 26, 2017, 09:29:18 pm »
Hello everybody,

A friend have a OCZ vertex Le went i think in panic mode.

I tried to reflash firmware.

I used the tool from ocz toolbox boot onto a usb but the ssd isn't recognized 
I have a similar error like alexsio error -16 on boot with tool from ocz when Linux at startup try to open sata channel.

I understood I have to enter a kind of managment mode (MFG mode) but I havn't any p8 p9 where to solder jumper connector. My SSD isn't a Vertex 2 but a Vertex Le based onto a OCZ ICT0027 controller Anandtech said many yaers ago it was something hybrid controller between SF 1200 e SF 1500

I would be gratefull if any of you may help me identifing what connector to jumper to make ssd visible to flashing firmware tool.

Thank you for your kind help.

Diego

« Last Edit: November 28, 2017, 08:28:08 pm by Diego72 »
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #34 on: December 07, 2017, 09:27:12 am »
Hi

I have vertex 2 120GB that i'm trying to re-flash but when i get to the select "flash part number" it does not have my part number (29f64g08cbaaa) but if i change the drive capacity to (100GB) then it shows me the flash part number i have. Does any one have the firmware for my flash number or have a suggestion on a work around.

SSD Info:
Model: OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G
Flash: 29f64g08cbaaa
Controller: Sandforce sf-1222TA3-SBH

Thank you
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #35 on: March 28, 2018, 09:23:05 am »
Hi,

first of all I want to thank you for sharing all the information above, which finally allowed me to fix bricked Vertex2!

Here are some observations which may help others trying to do the same:

- I used push button to connect P8 - P9, pressed it before turning PC on, holding all the time until MPtool starts to process (format) it

- In case that SSD is detected by BIOS (as Sandforce because P8 and P9 connected together) but not in MP Tool and the console launched together with MP Tool complains about "insmod: error inserting ‘./ssdt_driver.ko’: -1 Operation not permitted" make sure you enabled AHCI in BIOS or try to use different motherboard (PC) for the procedure. I was not able to get Vertex detected in MP Tool on Gigabyte GA-K8NE mobo (quite old, no AHCI option in BIOS) and MSI MS-7592 ver 7.1 (also old one, no AHCI in BIOS again), both showing "ssdt_driver.ko" error in console. Then I tried much newer Asus Z97M-plus and everything worked as expected.

I have one more question: Is anybody able to tell me which version of Sandforce SF 1222 firmware (or OCZ Vertex2 fw, as the OCZ fw numbering differs from original SF numbering) is fixing this "brick issue" (=prevents from bricking again)?

Here are my notes with some pictures of the procedure: http://buger.dread.cz/ocz-vertex2-unbrick.html

Thanks again :-)
 
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #36 on: April 02, 2018, 05:58:36 pm »
Hi,
I have PCB-0025-X01
and not found P8 e P9 to solder!
and.... I try to connect serial tag but nothing! |O
any help?
thanks

I have the same revision board. No P8 or P9 pins. It's a 60GB one.

I'll investigate but in case anyone knows; where are these P8 and P9 pins connected to?

Any hints are welcome. :)

Thanks guys.

/update1: Okay i think i'm just going to try blocking the SDA signal on startup. (i'll do this by shorting SDA to VCC) wish me luck. ;)

/update2: Just tried it and it indeed goes into MFG mode (bios shows a 25gb Sandforce disc) but i just cannot seem to get the tool to recognize the SSD.

/update3: Okay next i shorted pin 2 and 3 of the Atmel, same issue as before.
Then I tried a different SATA controller on mainboard (marvel) this one actually worked!! So i have my SSD back running again.

Next on the list is to find the correct device ID's so i can use the official OCZ toolbox for updating the firmware etc.
« Last Edit: April 03, 2018, 04:32:36 pm by KBDE »
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #37 on: August 21, 2018, 09:40:09 pm »

I have one more question: Is anybody able to tell me which version of Sandforce SF 1222 firmware (or OCZ Vertex2 fw, as the OCZ fw numbering differs from original SF numbering) is fixing this "brick issue" (=prevents from bricking again)?

I have two Vertex 2 80GB, SF1222 ... latest firmware is v1.37 (as far as I know)

Thanks for the guide and links, I was able to revive one of the SSDs which I bricked after I "forgot" to switch off the sleep on my laptop - The laptop slept, the SSD never woke up again.

I'm not aware of a standalone way to flash the firmware. I think (although not sure), that this link downloads the latest firmware from OCZ (now Toshiba's) server :

http://update.ocztechnology.com/firmware/release/sf/p1/12222

(as referred to in this post - https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/ocz-vertex-2-ssd-firmware/msg565210/#msg565210 )

If someone knows how to (force) flash that, would be helpful, but obviously need to confirm it's the right file first.

By the looks of things, the OCZ server that provides Firmware update for older SSDs still is online (for how much longer, who knows). Firmware can be updated in linux using a download I found on Arch linux website  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocztoolbox/ :

http://url.muflone.com/ocztoolbox-4.9.0.634_linux.tar.gz

Just download, extract and run the executable.

There are also versions of standalone OCZ Bootable tools, which is based on TinyCoreLinux. It's a bit more fiddly to setup, as you'd need to create a USB stick, that boots, then mounts and boots the .ISO file from the USB stick (the .ISO provided by OCZ doesn't include a bootloader !). What I think is the latest version can be downloaded here :

https://web.archive.org/web/20140716061012/http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware/OCZ_PC_Bootable_Tools-5.4.298_UUI.zip

AND, there's a Windows tool which still also seems to work (latest version I think) :

https://web.archive.org/web/20160320062612/http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware/OCZToolbox_v4.9.0.634_win32.zip


Regarding "MP Tool", it's quite fiddly, but it's really worth persevering with it, because eventually I managed to bring the SSD back, even though I was getting errors in the log window.

Of note is, if you want to at least try to update the firmware (or at least, for any of the OCZ tools to recognise the drive) with any of the above tools, you'd need to setup the Drive information a bit more precisely. Of note are :

"IEEE Company ID" - I believe this should be set to "E83A97" (The hex code for 'OCZ Technology Group')
"Increment" - I set to "0"
"Serial Number" - I wasn't able to get the WWN to match what my "good" drive reported in 'smartctl -a' ... anyway I just entered "fcd03878d", which is part of my serial number.
To confuse matters there's a decimal serial number printed on the SSD case, which doesn't seem to match the Hex one reported in smartctl -a
Maybe there's a setting somewhere in MP Tool to set it up correctly, never used it before, so I don't know.

And "Model Number" - I set to "OCZ-VERTEX2" (again what's reported in smartctl -a
And, also, I don't know if this makes any difference but I changed "Flash Connectivity Test" to False.

With my doing all these things I was able to get both *all* of OCZ tools suggested above to recognise the drive, but unfortunately, they all reported back the the drive had rejected the firmware update. As I can make use of the drive anyway, doesn't really matter, and I'm out of time now.

Hope this is helpful.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #38 on: September 01, 2018, 04:56:24 pm »
DonCharisma, many thanks for sharing your experience!

Regarding to the WWN: I have found the following in an SF-2xxx docs:

Quote
Serial No.: The serial number to assign to this device in the final stages of the drive’s
manufacturing process. As described in the Diagnostic specification document, this field is a
maximum of 20 characters. SF_Genesis does not manage increment, monitor, or enforce the
serial number assignment scheme internally. It is the responsibility of the manufacture to
maintain and supply serial numbers to the tool appropriately.


WWN: The World Wide Name to assign to this device in the final stages of the drive’s
manufacturing process. SF_Genesis does not manage, increment, monitor, or enforce the
WWN assignment scheme internally. It is the responsibility of the manufacture to maintain and
supply serial numbers to the tool appropriately. The world wide name will have the following
format for SSD drives:

5 + 6 Nibble OUI + 9 Nibbles of Unique ID = 16 Nibbles
This input should be provided as a single continuous string as a hexadecimal number such as:
512AB23000CDFF0A

NOTE: When assigning World Wide Names for SAS drives, four sequential numbers should be allocated for each manufactured drive. The SF_Genesis only requires the first one to be entered at command line. However, it is the responsibility of the OEM partner’s WWN management
system to increment the WWN numbers by four for every drive manufactured.

So serial number and WWN seems to be two different fields.
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #39 on: October 11, 2018, 08:16:02 pm »

I have one more question: Is anybody able to tell me which version of Sandforce SF 1222 firmware (or OCZ Vertex2 fw, as the OCZ fw numbering differs from original SF numbering) is fixing this "brick issue" (=prevents from bricking again)?

I have two Vertex 2 80GB, SF1222 ... latest firmware is v1.37 (as far as I know)

Thanks for the guide and links, I was able to revive one of the SSDs which I bricked after I "forgot" to switch off the sleep on my laptop - The laptop slept, the SSD never woke up again.

I'm not aware of a standalone way to flash the firmware. I think (although not sure), that this link downloads the latest firmware from OCZ (now Toshiba's) server :

http://update.ocztechnology.com/firmware/release/sf/p1/12222

(as referred to in this post - https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/ocz-vertex-2-ssd-firmware/msg565210/#msg565210 )

If someone knows how to (force) flash that, would be helpful, but obviously need to confirm it's the right file first.

By the looks of things, the OCZ server that provides Firmware update for older SSDs still is online (for how much longer, who knows). Firmware can be updated in linux using a download I found on Arch linux website  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocztoolbox/ :

http://url.muflone.com/ocztoolbox-4.9.0.634_linux.tar.gz

Just download, extract and run the executable.

There are also versions of standalone OCZ Bootable tools, which is based on TinyCoreLinux. It's a bit more fiddly to setup, as you'd need to create a USB stick, that boots, then mounts and boots the .ISO file from the USB stick (the .ISO provided by OCZ doesn't include a bootloader !). What I think is the latest version can be downloaded here :

https://web.archive.org/web/20140716061012/http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware/OCZ_PC_Bootable_Tools-5.4.298_UUI.zip

AND, there's a Windows tool which still also seems to work (latest version I think) :

https://web.archive.org/web/20160320062612/http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware/OCZToolbox_v4.9.0.634_win32.zip


Regarding "MP Tool", it's quite fiddly, but it's really worth persevering with it, because eventually I managed to bring the SSD back, even though I was getting errors in the log window.

Of note is, if you want to at least try to update the firmware (or at least, for any of the OCZ tools to recognise the drive) with any of the above tools, you'd need to setup the Drive information a bit more precisely. Of note are :

"IEEE Company ID" - I believe this should be set to "E83A97" (The hex code for 'OCZ Technology Group')
"Increment" - I set to "0"
"Serial Number" - I wasn't able to get the WWN to match what my "good" drive reported in 'smartctl -a' ... anyway I just entered "fcd03878d", which is part of my serial number.
To confuse matters there's a decimal serial number printed on the SSD case, which doesn't seem to match the Hex one reported in smartctl -a
Maybe there's a setting somewhere in MP Tool to set it up correctly, never used it before, so I don't know.

And "Model Number" - I set to "OCZ-VERTEX2" (again what's reported in smartctl -a
And, also, I don't know if this makes any difference but I changed "Flash Connectivity Test" to False.

With my doing all these things I was able to get both *all* of OCZ tools suggested above to recognise the drive, but unfortunately, they all reported back the the drive had rejected the firmware update. As I can make use of the drive anyway, doesn't really matter, and I'm out of time now.

Hope this is helpful.

Hey, thanks for the extra info. It really helped to make my resurrected OCZ Vertex 2 60gb be recognized in OCZ Toolbox. But like you said firmware update fails. Maybe the name of the firmware already in the drive can provide some clues? Mine says it's in firmware 346A13F0. I tried some HEX and ASCII converters but it doesn't seem to mean anything. Did you ever manage to flash your drive with regular tools?
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #40 on: December 29, 2018, 02:05:11 pm »
Hi folks.
I think I have the same problem, but on an Agility 2.

OCZ Agility 2 90GB - PN: OCZSSD2-2AGTE90G
PCB-0025-X01

It stopped working properly after a Windows sleep.
It is seen by the motherboard (ASUS P5Q-EM), sometimes. But then any attempt to access it causes it to 'freeze'.
I have located MPTools - can boot to that from a USB drive.
MPTools doesn't see the drive.
Per bugerdread's post, on the Vertex 2, two jumpers are described (P8, P9) that put that drive into MFG mode so that MPTools will talk to the drive. The Agility 2 does not have these jumpers.
Does anyone know what the equivalent jumpers would be on this PCB? Or, if there is another method for MFG mode (it was suggested to me that putting the drive into an external USB caddy would do the trick - I have yet to try it)?
Also, I saw KBDE's post. I am not an electronics technician, so I'm hoping someone could explain this to me. 'SDA' I know as a Linux drive designation, and 'VCC' is one of the connections on the serial connector on the board.

My technical level: I can properly follow step-by-step guides, use a multimeter, solder, build and configure a PC without killing it in the process.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,
Stuart.
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #41 on: January 04, 2019, 08:26:35 pm »
Hello people!

First of all, thank you for all the information in this thread and all the time spent.

I am on the same situation here. A 120GB Vertex 2 without the P8-P9 points.

Apart from being able to get it to mfg mode, I would also like to ask if the OCZ tool works atm, because I read that it only works while connected to internet and it probably was supposed to connect to OCZ servers to download the firmware.

So, if I succeed in getting it in mfg mode and ocz tool recognizes the drive, how am I gonna update it to 1.37 FW?

Thank you in advance.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #42 on: February 26, 2019, 08:44:21 pm »
I have a OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD.  It just died today.

The pcb does not have the P8 and P9 test points.

The SDA that is referred to by KBDE is on the Amtel serial eeprom (U4 on the pcb).  The datasheet shows pn 4 as GND, pin 5 as SDA, pin 8 as VCC.  You can verify pin 4 (GND) and 8 (VCC) by doing a resistance/continuity test to the jtag interface.

So if you don't have P8 and P9, look at U4 and then find your datasheet.  The datasheet will tell you what pin is SDA, VCC and GND.

So you need to short pin 5 to pin 8.

I have downloaded all the files from the google drive share, but I haven't started repair process yet.

I probably won't have time until the weekend to try and restore my drive.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #43 on: February 26, 2019, 08:59:27 pm »
I'm not sure how aware people are of this, but these drives and their controllers are well known to cause trouble. Recover any data you can, but don't trust these drives any further than you can throw them. Move on to something less sketchy. If you're running one, back your data up immediately and assume imminent failure.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #44 on: February 27, 2019, 01:43:03 am »
Mine was being used soley as boot drive for Lubuntu.  All my critical data is backed up daily onto a separate drive.

If I can get the Vertex fixed, it's going into a test system as a linux boot drive.
 
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2019, 12:15:03 pm »
if you want to play Sandforce, at least from SF2281, since the license calculator already been released for more than one year, you can flash it via a Linux OS
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2019, 04:35:00 pm »
Hello everybody,

I have 4 of those SF 1222 ssds with all different flash configurations, three OCZ Vertex 2 and one Cnmemory Phantom 2. But when I try to reflash them with the mptool, it allways fails and I receive error messages like this:

Code: [Select]
Using SSDT release ssdtMptool1.1.1.

Device enumeration IOCTL failed
Unable to get driver error message
****SSDT Driver Error: Begin****

****SSDT Driver Error: End****
Devices detected = 1
Devices no 0:
Devices have been scanned again. Please select the new devices
Identify Device IOCTL call failed. ErrorCode = 80C0000C
****SSDT Driver Error: Begin****
IDENTIFY DEVICE Failed ata1: status=0xec { Busy }


****SSDT Driver Error: End****
All downloads have completed.

I tried it on two different boards with ahci support as suggested, an OEM MSI MS-7366 Motherbord with Nvidia MCP73 chipset und an ASrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3. On the ASrock board it failed in the "processing drive" stage and stayed in manufacturing mode. On the MSI board it came to the "rebooting drive" stage and failed there. After that it was not recognised anymore until reboot. It seems that the initial processing should be successful as the BIOS reports the configured capacity and it shows up as "Sandforce IDE Hard Disk".

It would be quite strange if all of the drives are dead, since I got them from different sources and none of the "warranty void if removed" stickers were damaged.

Has anybody here experienced similar problems, e.g. if the Atmel eeprom chip was removed/erased or certain boards were used?

I only found a russian forum thread where this problem was mentioned but they never came back to it: http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=84&topic=4797&start=1880

Thank you in advance.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2019, 04:49:35 pm »
Considering the reputation of those drives and the fact that this basically bankrupted OCZ, I'd take into serious consideration all four drives are dead.
 

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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #48 on: June 03, 2019, 06:55:28 pm »
Hello again,

I finally managed to recover all 4 of the drives. I tried the tool on yet another board and it finally went through without errors. It was on a Dell Optiplex 330, which has the intel G31 Northbride and the intel ICH7 Southbridge. I still don't know why it didn't work on the other 2 boards.  :-//
One ssd had a configuration with 16 x MT29F64G08CBAAA flash chips but was listed only as 100GB instead of 120GB written on the drive, I guess that it now has 20GB more space for overprovisioning, which should theoretically increase performance.
Another ssd had 32 x JS29F32G08AAMDB flash chips soldered on but I only found a configuration with 16 of them for a total of 60GB instead of the physical 120GB. If somebody finds a .dst file with its original configuration, please let me know. For now i stick with 60GB, which is better than nothing.
As mentioned before I can't recommend storing anything important on those drives which you can't afford to lose. Also don't use those drives in mission critical environments, as the firmware could crash at any given moment and cause at least a downtime! For me I only plan to use them in hobbyist projects as they are way faster than hard drives and using them avoids unnecessary e-waste.

Thanks for sharing the information on this.
 
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Re: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD firmware
« Reply #49 on: June 04, 2019, 07:08:09 am »
I think you will find that the NAND supply voltage is 2.8V. I've always wondered whether this lower voltage makes the SSD more susceptible to Flash Translation Layer corruption during sudden power loss events. It shouldn't be too difficult to reprogram the feedback resistors in the regulator's potential divider for 3.3V ...
 


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