MZ-jpv128r/0a2 freezing - adapter needed

[boerge]

Dear friends,

best job between christmas and new year ... i'm working on an apple "Samsung MZ-jpv128r/0a2" from macbook air early 2014. The guys in the apple-store couldnt recover any data, so customer needs "fast" help.

Long story, big (or not?) problem.

When customer came in, i tried the SSD with PCIe-Adapter under linux-environment and it was recognized - after he was gone i tried this again to copy the data and the drive was gone also.

After about 1 hour i tried again and could copy 2% with dd_rescue - then the drive freezes. On next restart it wasn't recognized. One hour later i could initialize the drive again and read 3% backward - then still freezing.

So i decided to work with pc3k and installed the adapter in our DR-machine. But System doesn't start until Windows-Logo. After 4 attemps Windows starts and i could copy 1% of data with data-extractor - then still freeze.

With PC3K-DE and this pcie-adapter i cannot handle any reading-errors (soft/hard-reset or power on/off...) or play with timings. And if the drive freezes i have to restart/power off the machine until the drive comes ready again.

So i'm searching for a solution to "hotplug" the PCIe-drive every time it is freezing without restarting the whole machine. I found this https://www.amazon.de/QNINE-Adapterkart ... s=1&sr=8-3 and this https://www.ebay.de/itm/M-2-NVME-SSD-zu ... Sw1pddS6KA . With this adapters it should be possible to restart the drive every time it freezes, or not?

Can anybody help?

Thanks and happy new year to all of you!

[LarrySabo]

This sounds like a good case for DeepSpar's USB Stabilizer+USB adapter.

[pcimage]

This sounds like a good case for DeepSpar's USB Stabilizer+USB adapter.

Exactly what I was thinking! A perfect candidate

[digisupport]

ACELab´s PC-USB PWR adapter + USB adapter will also do the job

[boerge]

@larrysabo and pcimage: Thanks - i'll try with my cheap solution. DeepSpar-Tool sounds good but isn't an option at this time.

If this doesn't work i'll come back.

@digisupport - drive is PCIe - ACE-adapters only work with SATA-based drives

[digisupport]

@larrysabo and pcimage: Thanks - i'll try with my cheap solution. DeepSpar-Tool sounds good but isn't an option at this time.

If this doesn't work i'll come back.

@digisupport - drive is PCIe - ACE-adapters only work with SATA-based drives

Not sure about your actual model, have non of them registered. Imaging a MZ-JPU512T/0A6 right now.
ACE PC-USB PWR adapter + PCIe2USB adapter like this one works fine https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MAU3ENPRPCI/
Will also let you control power directly from DE.