OCZ Vertex 3 SSD with Bricked Firmware
Good day folks. Pretty pointless weekend project overall here: a workmate gave me a junk 120GB OCZ SSD he had at home which no longer works. After a bit of digging, I learned these were notorious for firmware bugs and would die often and I reckon this one is no exception. I found a few resources about how to resurrect them, just for fun, but unfortunately they're all for the Vertex 2, whereas mine is a Vertex 3 for which I cannot find a damn thing...
THIS here is a good resource and gets pretty close to what I'm trying to achieve, but again: everything provided is for the Vertex 2...I decided to press on anyway, to the point where I made that bootable MTP USB flash drive and am able to boot into it, the SSD with its "service jumper" shorted got detected, but that's as far as I could make it because the firmware doesn't match, which should come as no surprise, since the controllers are different: the V.2 uses a SF1222, whereas the V3 has a SF2281.
On top of that, it uses some bullshit proprietary NANDs which of course nobody's heard of, though I was able to find a russian article here who got even closer, since he also got the controller right and I was ready to go for it again, but then found my NANDs are different
! It involves a MASSIVE amount of work, getting Fedora going, installing sh!t and working with command prompts and going through all sorts of lists and IDs and stuff....DAMN! I didn't push on with this second guy only to find my NANDs don't match, so I stopped for now...
I doubt there's anything we can do with this thing in its current state: no firmware and no resources =
unless someone comes up with a brainy idea....again, it's just for fun, there's no data on it, it's an old nasty thing....no hard feelings in the long run 
THIS here is a good resource and gets pretty close to what I'm trying to achieve, but again: everything provided is for the Vertex 2...I decided to press on anyway, to the point where I made that bootable MTP USB flash drive and am able to boot into it, the SSD with its "service jumper" shorted got detected, but that's as far as I could make it because the firmware doesn't match, which should come as no surprise, since the controllers are different: the V.2 uses a SF1222, whereas the V3 has a SF2281.
On top of that, it uses some bullshit proprietary NANDs which of course nobody's heard of, though I was able to find a russian article here who got even closer, since he also got the controller right and I was ready to go for it again, but then found my NANDs are different
! It involves a MASSIVE amount of work, getting Fedora going, installing sh!t and working with command prompts and going through all sorts of lists and IDs and stuff....DAMN! I didn't push on with this second guy only to find my NANDs don't match, so I stopped for now...I doubt there's anything we can do with this thing in its current state: no firmware and no resources =
unless someone comes up with a brainy idea....again, it's just for fun, there's no data on it, it's an old nasty thing....no hard feelings in the long run
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