Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-05 Thread piorunz
On 28/04/2022 18:05, Stefan Monnier wrote: I finally got it working! I blame lack of attention to details, old age, shaky hands, and < 100% vision. I uninstalled the ssd, looked all over I consider these kinds of reaction as a variation of Stockholm syndrome: when something doesn't work under G

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
On 5/5/22 10:23, Borden wrote: Good to see that the issue was just mis-installation, as I recently upgraded from a Samsung 2TB EVO to a Crucial 2 TB drive without issue (well, I had PLENTY of issues with Samsung's "customer service" and Newegg's "return policy"). Resolved never to buy Samsu

Re: Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread Borden
Good to see that the issue was just mis-installation, as I recently upgraded from a Samsung 2TB EVO to a Crucial 2 TB drive without issue (well, I had PLENTY of issues with Samsung's "customer service" and Newegg's "return policy"). Resolved never to buy Samsung products again, as their "warran

[SOLVED] Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 14:17 Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:12 Alexander V. Makartsev > wrote: > >> On 27.04.2022 20:37, Tom Browder wrote: >> > ... >> > If either of those fail to see it, I’m afraid I toasted it. I don’t >> > think that will qualify for a return. > > > I final

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread piorunz
On 27/04/2022 18:11, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: It is next to impossible to actually mishandle and "toast" a device simply by unpacking it and connecting to a SATA port. (Even when PC is powered on¹). SSDs are not fragile, they are electrically compatible with SATA standard, so both data and p

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread piorunz
On 27/04/2022 12:57, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz mailto:cbr...@t-online.de>> wrote: ... I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there might be an ISO image for updating the drive too. What is the exact model name? Crucial M

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:08:04 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > On 27.04.2022 16:06, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba > > laptop with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done > > that in an old Dell Latitude and had n

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:12 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 27.04.2022 20:37, Tom Browder wrote: > > ... > > If either of those fail to see it, I’m afraid I toasted it. I don’t > > think that will qualify for a return. I finally got it working! I blame lack of attention to details, old age

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 27.04.2022 20:37, Tom Browder wrote: ... If either of those fail to see it, I’m afraid I toasted it. I don’t think that will qualify for a return. ... What makes you think that way? It is next to impossible to actually mishandle and "toast" a device simply by unpacking it and connecting t

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Felix Miata
Tom Browder composed on 2022-04-27 10:37 (UTC-0500): > I removed the old drive, installed the new SSD, then booted off a Debian > live dvd. > It never found the drive, so I may have killed it. Killed it how? My Linux-only 120G & 240G MX500s were mere PNP, the smaller originally setup in a tower

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:11 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Tom > > Did you remove the old drive and try the SSD using the installer? > I removed the old drive, installed the new SSD, then booted off a Debian live dvd. It never found the drive, so I may have killed it. I am twiddling my thumbs unti

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Tom Did you remove the old drive and try the SSD using the installer? On 27 April 2022 11:06:20 am UTC, Tom Browder wrote: >I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba laptop >with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done that in an >old Dell Latitude and

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz wrote: > ... > > I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there > > might be an ISO image for updating the drive too. What is the exact > > model name? > > > > Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5-INCH SOLID STATE DRIVE

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 8:48 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > Tom Browder writes: ... > Looks like the SB800 south bridge supports SATA 3.0 6Gb/s interfaces so > it doesn't seem like it's the problem here. But I have no idea what the > problem could be, other than a faulty drive. Well, as I said original

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Tom Browder writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:08 Alexander V. Makartsev > wrote: > ... > > The laptop is a Toshiba C655D-S5136 Satellite. > The SSD is a Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5 inch SSD. Some quick specs from https://www.cnet.com/reviews/toshiba-satellite-c655d-review/: Price as reviewed

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Christian Britz wrote: > I found it. https://www.crucial.com/support/ssd-support/mx500-support, > there seem to be two versions. Click on the appropriate blue button, a > zip file will be downloaded which contains the ISO. Apparently this can > not be written to USB. Both of them look like th

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-04-27 07:46:27 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > And for future reference, what brand of SSDs (and memory) do you use? A few months ago, when I looked at what was recommended to change the SSD disk of my laptop, I found that the Samsung 870 EVO 1TB was generally recommended. So this is what I ch

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-04-27 17:08:04 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > I've never heard anything like that and I've worked with many > consumer-grade SSDs. > Usually all SSDs "just work". They may come pre-partitioned and > pre-formatted, but this could be reconfigured with any standard utility > programs.

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 14:46 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > And for future reference, what brand of SSDs (and memory) do you use? Currently I use what is built in to my laptop, a SK Hynix SSD. The Raspi home server is connected to a traditional hard disk. In the past I had a Samsung EVO SSD for home u

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 27.04.2022 17:17, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:08 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: ... The laptop is a Toshiba C655D-S5136 Satellite. The SSD is a Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5 inch SSD. Thanks, Alexander. -Tom Crucial MX500 is based on SM2258 controller IC from Silicon Motion.

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:30 Christian Britz wrote: … > I found it. https://www.crucial.com/support/ssd-support/mx500-support, > there seem to be two versions. Click on the appropriate blue button, a > zip file will be downloaded which contains the ISO. Apparently this can > not be written to US

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 14:22 UTC+0200, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-04-27 13:57 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz > > wrote: >> ... >> >> I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there >> might b

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 13:57 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz > wrote: > ... > > I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there > might be an ISO image for updating the drive too. What is the exact >

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:08 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: ... The laptop is a Toshiba C655D-S5136 Satellite. The SSD is a Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5 inch SSD. Thanks, Alexander. -Tom

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 27.04.2022 16:06, Tom Browder wrote: I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba laptop with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done that in an old Dell Latitude and had no problems.) I first did a clean install of Debian 11 on the old drive to ensure

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz wrote: ... I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there > might be an ISO image for updating the drive too. What is the exact > model name? > Crucial MX500 1000GB 2.5-INCH SOLID STATE DRIVE Thanks, Christian -Tom

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 13:06 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > drive. From what I can find at Crucial, I need to install their Storage > Executive program on a Windows host, hook up the SSD to a USB/SATA > connector on that host, and configure or install the firmware onto the SSD. Sounds really crappy. A