In both examples one pair of 3.0 pins are capacitively coupled, the other are not.

In the OP's case there are no inductors (chokes). The Patriot-256GB example has chokes at L4 and L5.



It stands to reason that the centre pins would be for USB 2.0 (a photo of the opposite side would help to confirm this). That's because USB 3.0 connectors are downward compatible with USB 2.0, and it would make sense for the PCB layout to facilitate a USB 2.0 connector (as jeremyb appears to be suggesting).

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The following site clearly shows the capacitors and inductors for each of the USB 3.0 differential pairs. The centrally located USB 2.0 pair is directly connected to the flash controller.

Review, Teardown: Corsair Flash Voyager LS 32Gb USB 3.0 Flash Drive:
http://goughlui.com/2015/02/28/review-teardown-corsair-flash-voyager-ls-32gb-usb-3-0-flash-drive/

http://cdn1.goughlui.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150227-0759-3764.jpg
http://cdn2.goughlui.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150227-0800-3765.jpg

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That matches my configuration for previous non-standard USB 3.0. The standard, as JeremyB mentioned, is pin 2-4-6-8 for USB 2.0 connection, but our non standard are 1-4-6-9.

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Well that did gain us some improvement. We can see there is a USB connected and the volume does have a label, but no size. So this may be both a board issue, hence not being able to power via USB 3, and a NAND issue, perhaps broken solder balls as suspected. I have reflowed the NAND but this still did not improve things. I am going to remove the NAND, but I suspect its BGA-70 which is why I didn't want to remove it in the first place.

Thanks for the help, I will let you know.

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It's a long shot, but not unheard of, check the top of the pins on the controller (NAND side). sometimes they crack right at the controller. Sometimes overlooked because we focus too much on the pads

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Check the voltages on the bypass capacitors around the NAND.

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have you tried, whle it is connected, to take a full disk image with, say, DMDE? I suspect you will still get Disk I/O error. Is the label a generic type or could it be the proper label the disk had?

I know barbaric, but IMHO chip off would be the quickest solution.

That is the next stage, but like I say after some research it looks like it might be a new BGA 70 chip which is probably not readable at the moment.

@fzabkar. Here are the voltages around the NAND

BC9 1.1v
BC8 1.1v
BC22 1.8v
BC4 1.1v
BC6 1.1v
BC5 3.3v

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The voltages look OK.

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If it is LGA70 like this:



you might be able to trace the pads back to the controller. PITA, I know.

The Phison controller pinout should be available available on flashboot or USBdev or whatever those sites are called..

here is an interesting page reversing iphone NVMe chip, which may be what you have there..

https://jaytaylor.com/notes/node/1479404824000.html

Thanks everyone for sticking with me on this one. And yes HaQue mine is the LGA70 chip as you detailed above. I have not been able to find the pinout for the controller yet but will keep looking. In the meantime I have ordered a few donors.

Thanks again.

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what is the full name of the phison.. eg.. PS2251-07-V, PS2251-68-5

I will have to check on Sunday. Off to Vegas for the Ace Labs conference for as few days.

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I suspect that the OP miswired the USB pins by mistake
IMHO the OP had used another USB connector who has a diff pinout like this

@ jeremyb here is attached the one you're referring to
the controller is PS2251