How to flash latest firmware (D417) on SanDisk LT0200WM disk

[evs9]

Hello,

Is there any way (or any paid way) to get these disks flashed to D417 or the latest usable firmware that doesn't have the 40K hour bug?

[0:0:21:0] disk SanDisk LT0200WM P405 /dev/sdd /dev/sg2
[0:0:22:0] disk SanDisk LT0200WM P405 /dev/sde /dev/sg3
[0:0:23:0] disk SanDisk LT0200WM P405 /dev/sdf /dev/sg4
[0:0:24:0] disk SanDisk LT0200WM P405 /dev/sdg /dev/sg5


=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SanDisk
Product: LT0200WM
Revision: P405
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 200,049,647,616 bytes [200 GB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5001e82002806304
Serial number: 41968388
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Fri Jan 26 17:29:13 2024 EET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

Example of a dead drive


diskblaster2500:~/extract/payload # smartctl -a /dev/sdg
smartctl 7.2 2021-09-14 r5237 [x86_64-linux-5.14.21-150500.55.31-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SanDisk
Product: LT0200WM
Revision: P405
Compliance: SPC-4
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5001e8200280b4e8
Serial number: 41989352
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Fri Jan 26 17:29:43 2024 EET
device is NOT READY (e.g. spun down, busy)
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.
diskblaster2500:~/extract/payload #

Any possible solution?

[fzabkar]

Can you show us a photo of the PCB? I'm hoping that we can coax the drive into "safe mode" or some mode that prepares it to accept a firmware download.

[evs9]

Hi, should I disassemble the PCB from the disk or just a photo of the underside would be sufficient?

I have 1 x dead disk, but I have >10 disks with 30-35K hours, with same FW, that are not dead yet

I would like to save them if I can

[fzabkar]

Please show us both sides of the PCB.

I'm wondering if we could repair the bad SSD with a technique like this:

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=39458

FWIW ...

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=39964

[pepe]

these things have like 3 layers of pcbs folded into the casing with flex pcb connection, pretty complex animals, at least the 800G version.
You should be able to update the working ones with the provided update tools. But the bad one won't get fixed by the new fw.

[fzabkar]

these things have like 3 layers of pcbs folded into the casing with flex pcb connection, pretty complex animals, at least the 800G version.
You should be able to update the working ones with the provided update tools. But the bad one won't get fixed by the new fw.

There doesn't seem to be an official update for the generic retail firmware.

[pepe]

the DELL update util does not like your drive? what does it say about it?

[pepe]

sent pm last week...