This is not a case of solid state disk drives suddenly giving up the ghost. Grub leaves them in a really messed up state. Any attempts to partition or format afterwords gives a hardware error.
Using a low level format utility can fix these drives, but of course you lose everything and you need to start from scratch wit hte drive -- [karmic] long boot time on eee 900 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs