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 Post subject: Atola Insight and SSD
PostPosted: May 25th, 2012, 11:12 
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I am quite new to SSD, first drive in, a few USB's done. This is what happens on Atola, a little help please ;)

I have a Samsun SSD 250Gb SSD microsata connector.
Comes ready fine in atola, Diagnostics bellow.

Here is the bit I don't get: media scan works perfect, no errors. BUT imaging does not work, will not read any data, none.

Any ideas, please?

PS. user has told me disk is encripted with (i think) EFS. Would this explain the above? (yes, i am trying to get the cert backup to dis-encrypt)

Many thanks!


Atola Insight v2.5.4423.31284
DiskSense unit: USB
Device information:
SAMSUNG SSD PB22-CS3 TM 256GB
Serial number: DFF6302948SE948B5560
Firmware revision: VBM24D1Q
Capacity: 500,118,192 sectors or 256,060,514,304 bytes
512 bytes per sector

Diagnostics results
No major hardware or firmware issues have been found.
Cannot diagnose file systems because there was an error reading partition table
Full Diagnostic Log
Circuit Board (PCB)
Selected Interface: SATA
Device is powered on. A power cycle is needed...
Applying power and watching spin-up currents...
Current oscillogram (12V):

Current oscillogram (5V):

Device is ready
Registers: 0101 0001 0001 0000 0000 E0E0 5050 Alt: 5050
Peak power consumption during spin-up: 5V line = 1135.25 mA; 12V line = 22.19 mA
Status register seems to be valid.
Interface check passed.
Device has been identified: SAMSUNG SSD PB22-CS3 TM 256GB SN: DFF6302948SE948B5560
Elapsed: 17.3 sec.
Circuit board looks fine
Heads
Checking power consumption curves for signs of head damage
Identifying the device
Detecting device family
All device identification checks have passed.
Solid State Drives do not have heads.
Media Surface
Media scan is running...
Verifying outer tracks (LBA: 0–600,064)
0 error(s) found
Verifying middle tracks (LBA: 250,059,095–250,659,159)
0 error(s) found
Verifying inner tracks (LBA: 499,518,127–500,118,191)
0 error(s) found
Elapsed: 27.2 sec.
Media surface looks fine
Firmware
Device is not locked.
Device identification data looks fine.
Max Address according to device ID: 500,118,191
Native Max Address Ext: 500,118,191
Max Address from DCO: 500,118,191
Reported capacity looks logically correct.
Performing SMART checks...
# Attribute Name Value Worst Threshold RAW
9 Power-on time 99 99 0 2,979
12 Power Cycles 98 98 0 2,004
175 99 99 11 1
176 100 100 11 0
177 99 99 17 29
178 57 57 11 53
179 92 92 10 618
180 92 92 10 7,318
181 99 99 10 1
182 100 100 10 0
183 99 99 10 1
187 Reported Uncorrectable 98 98 0 1,875
195 Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 0 1,875
198 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 0 0
199 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 253 253 0 0
232 57 57 11 71
233 93 93 0 296,267,951
Elapsed: 0.4 sec.
Firmware looks fine
File System Structures
Error in partition table: Sector 0 read error
Cannot diagnose file systems because there was an error reading partition table
Elapsed: 22 sec.
File System Structures check complete.


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 Post subject: Re: Atola Insight and SSD
PostPosted: May 28th, 2012, 2:41 
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mediaman wrote:
user has told me disk is encripted with (i think) EFS. Would this explain the above?


Very likely.

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 Post subject: Re: Atola Insight and SSD
PostPosted: May 28th, 2012, 8:46 
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northwind wrote:
mediaman wrote:
user has told me disk is encripted with (i think) EFS. Would this explain the above?


Very likely.


But in this case before with normal disks I have always been able to image. the problem then comes with file recovery our mounting the recovered image.

I think I should be able to image anyway?

Anyway, no cert backup from client yet, so no hurry..


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 Post subject: Re: Atola Insight and SSD
PostPosted: May 29th, 2012, 0:40 
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We've never dealt with Samsung SSDs, but if I had to guess, this *could* be firmware damage. I would try different copy modes (PIO-only, for example).

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