TLDR; Upgrading the drive firmware to 070H solved the issue.
Am Samstag, den 20.09.2014, 02:12 +0200 schrieb Peter Stuge:
Paul Menzel wrote:
Changelog for 070H:
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* Resolved a power-up timing issue that could result in a drive hang, resulting in an inability to communicate with the host computer...
That last item might even be a fix for the issue we experience, so I am curious if you have tried it.
Do I understand correctly that you have a firmware newer than this, and you can reliably reproduce the problem?
Or if your firmware is older, why don't you try to upgrade and tell us the results?
Upgrading the firmware is cumbersome as at least for Crucial drives no GNU/Linux user space tools are provided and burning a CD for 5 MB seems to be waste.
In the end I succeeded upgrading the drive by booting from a live system on desktop PC with a proprietary BIOS, as the USB device was not detected on the Lenovo X60 with coreboot and SeaBIOS, and loaded the extracted files from the ISO image
$ sudo modprobe loop $ sudo mount /tmp/crucial-firmware-update.iso /mnt -o loop $ # copy files to /boot
with GRUB. In the command line mode, I entered the following.
kernel16 /memdisk floppy raw initrd16 /boot2880.img boot
The upgrade from 0309 to 070H was successful and trying the drive in the Lenovo X60t it was detected by SeaBIOS even at cold boot.
Since you are buying hardware components for Windows machines but not using them as they were designed (with Windows) you will have issues that manufacturers do not care about.
That is correct, but in this case even if there had been MS Windows installed on the SSD, it would not have been detected. ;-)
Thanks,
Paul