* Compile with:
* gcc -O2 -Wall -o test-ssd-write test-ssd-write.c
*
- * Hard disks known to stop responding with this program (requires a
+ * Hard disk setups known to stop responding with this program (requires a
* warm machine reboot to get the drive to respond, as soft reset is not
* enough):
*
- * Vendor Model Firmware Controller # drives tested HW
- * Intel (Lenovo) SSDSC2BW180A3L LE1i SandForce 2281 1 (3.5 Debian kernel) x230
- * Intel (Lenovo) SSDSC2BW180A3L LF1i SandForce 2281 3 (3.2 Debian kernel) x230
- * (3.7.9 Arch kernel) x230
+ * Vendor Model Firmware Controller # drives tested HW BIOS
+ * Intel (Lenovo) SSDSC2BW180A3L LE1i SandForce 2281 1 (3.5 Debian kernel) Lenovo x230 G2ET90WW (2.50) 2012-20-12
+ * Intel (Lenovo) SSDSC2BW180A3L LF1i SandForce 2281 2 (3.2 Debian kernel) Lenovo x230 G2ET90WW (2.50) 2012-20-12
+ * Intel (Lenovo) SSDSC2BW180A3L LF1i SandForce 2281 1 (3.7.9 Arch kernel) Lenovo x230 G2ET86WW (2.06) 2012-11-13
+ * Intel (Lenovo) SSDSC2BW180A3L LF1i SandForce 2281 1 (3.2 Debian kernel) Lenovo x200
*
- * We ensured that the problem is not coming from other parts by running
- * this test on other SSD drives, which don't show this problem:
+ * In order to narrow down the problem, we ran this test on a number of
+ * other hardware configurations which don't show this problem:
*
- * Vendor Model Firmware Controller # drives tested
+ * Vendor Model Firmware Controller # drives tested HW BIOS
* Intel SSDSA2M160G2GC 2CV102HD Intel 1
* Intel SSDSA2CW300G310 ??????? Intel 1 (over USB on 3.8 kernel)
* Intel SSDSA2CT040G3 4PC10302 Intel 1 (3.2 kernel)
* Intel SSDSA2CT040G3 4PC10362 Intel 1 (3.2 kernel)
* Intel SSDSC2CT120A3K5 ??????? SandForce 2281 1 (on HP SmartArray P212 with 3.2 kernel)
* OCZ OCZ-VERTEX3 2.25 SF-2281 1 (3.7.9 Arch kernel)
+ * OCZ OCZSSD2-2VTXE180G 1.37 SF-1200 1 (3.7.6 Arch kernel)
*
* Under Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, various kernels), after about 5 minutes,
* we get this result: