First post, by Hatta
I don't know if anyone else has had a similar problem, but I just bricked a couple SSDs on my Pentium II.
256GB Sandisk X400 SSDs, with an RXD-629A7-7 SATA to IDE adaptor, on a 440LX board.
I set up the partition on my modern machine, using only space below 128GB. Plugged the SSD into the Pentium II and booted a Linux partition on the hard disk. Used 'dd' to copy the Windows partition on that hard disk to the SSD.
Seemed to be working well until I checked it a couple hours later, and got "no DRQ after issuing WRITE" in dmesg. Bad SSD, I thought.
So I tried again with another X400 and another RXD-629. Same damn thing happened.
Reboot, and try to write a new disk label with gparted. Failed. Put them back in my main machine, and it boot loops unless I set the SATA mode to IDE in the BIOS. Run SSD Dashboard, hotplug the drive to unlock it, and try a secure erase. Failed. Sanitize. Failed.
Weird thing is, I tried the exact same procedure on my K7T266 and it worked fine. Identical hardware.
Now I'm wondering, is it the SATA-IDE adaptor or is it the Pentium II box? If I try again, and use my K7T266 to 'dd' the partitions over to a new SSD, will it just crap out when I put it back in the Pentium II? I dunno, I just wanted to put this out there and see if anyone had any relevant experience or advice. Thanks