I have an ASUS eeePC 900 (Target) with RAM upgrade and (formerly) a
Patriot SSD upgrade as described in Bug 445852. I believe THIS bug bit
the SSD hard on the lucid upgrade, and unfortunately I may have finally
worn out the SSD with all my experiments the last few months.

Despite several "zeros" (dd if=/dev/zero etc.) I can no longer install
lucid OR karmic successfully on the 32gig Patriot SSD. Before it started
failing completely I was getting the 30+second hangs with the drive
light on, and I didn't think to look for the HSM violations until too
late. Once I saw some in the VT terminal while I was copying /dev/zero
to the drive, and I took a photo in case the exact messages are helpful
.

I put the 4gig stock SSD back in, and installed Lucid just fine. (But
the stock SSD on this system never showed the serious corruption
problems like in Bug 445852.) I haven't put lucid through the paces on
the 4gig system, so it may show trouble I haven't seen yet.

Is there a place people are collecting wisdom on whether / how to test
or recover failed SSDs if they don't respond to the /dev/zero treatment?
Also when I go to order a replacement SSD, is there a place that lists
models that are not affected by these bugs?

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udisks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM violations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574462
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