Intel SSD 320 Series 8 MB Bug neue Firmware?

Hallo,
nach einem Stromausfall hat meine Intel SSD der 320er Serie den 8 MB Bug.
Sprich die SSD wird mit nur noch 8 MB erkannt.
In vielen Foren findet man die Lösung: Ein Firmware Update.
Leider ist die Festplatte von Lenovo, daher geht die original Intel Firmware nicht.
Auf der Lenovo Support Webseite findet man die aktuelle Firmware Version nicht.
Ich habe die Firmware LE05 (4PC1LE05) und brauche die Firmware LE06.
Ich habe zwei Artikel gefunden, die auf die LE06 Firmware verweisen, leider gehen die Downloads nicht mehr, weil Lenovo die Webseitenstruktur geändert hat:
http://support.lenovo.com/in/hi/documents/ht074473
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T420-SSD-8MB-Error-on-Current-4PC1LE04-Firm...
Ich habe schon den telefonischen Lenovo Support angerufen, aber die konnten mir nicht weiter helfen.
Wo bekomme ich jetzt die neue Firmware LE06 her?
SSD Modell: SSDSA2BW160G3L
Notebook: T420s

Ich konnte das Problem jetzt ohne neue Firmware lösen.
Ich habe die Intel SSD Toolbox installiert: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=18455
In der Toolbox habe ich Secure Erase ausgeführt. Nach einem Neustart hat die SSD jetzt wieder ihre 160 GB.
Die Daten sind zwar weg, aber man hat ja ein Backup.
Die LE06 Firmware wäre trotzdem super, damit beim nächsten Stromausfall nicht das gleiche passiert!

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Dec 25 23:25:59 a1 kernel: ffff8802127dffd8 0000000000010c20 0000000000000050 ffff8802127dffd8
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Dec 25 23:25:59 a1 kernel: [<ffffffff8125f268>] radix_tree_preload+0x68/0xf0
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http://www.jdhodges.com/blog/tip-shock-protection-unnecessary-if-you-have-a-ssd/
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Best Regards
krebbl

yes that's right. Unfortunatly I don't have a Windows PC.
But like I said, my second MacBook Pro boots from this CD and shows me the firmware updater. My first MacBook with the Intel SSD does not.
And like in the post here http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57575091-263/intel-x25-ssd-incompatible-wit h-os-x-10.8.3/ it should be no problem.
Are there other ways to boot an ISO file?

Lenonvo T440 with Intel SSD SC2BF240A4L - failing to install apps via SCCM 2012 task sequence

Hi there
Wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue with a T440 with Intel SSD hard disk.
Our firm purchased two Lenovo T440 laptops. One has a magnetic hard disk, the other a SSD hard disk. Here are the models:
SSD hard disk: Intel SSDSC2BF240A4L
Magnetic hard disk: 500Gb 7200rpm HTS725050A7E635
We deploy our Windows 7 build via a SCCM 2012 task sequence.
Building the T440 with the magnetic hard disk was trouble free. I built it repeatedly, and encountered no errors; our core applications installed successfully every time and the task sequence completed successfully every time.
All well and good.
Building the T440 with the Intel SSD hard disk has been frustrating. When I run the task sequence on this machine, 8 times out of 10 the task sequence will fail, either stopping abruplty at installing Oracle Single-Sign On or Appsense agents. When the task sequence fails it is ALWAYS at one of these two apps.
Frustratingly, sometimes the task sequence will complete successfully on this T440.
Given we successfully deploy this task sequence to a variety of different hardware from different vendors, including other Lenovo laptops, I can only guess the Intel SSD hard disk is the culprit.
Has anyone encountred anything like this? I've went through the smsts.log file and other SCCM log files and can find nothing obvious. That this ONLY happens on the T440 with the SSD suggests to me the issues lies in that direction.
I'll swap disks in either T440 to see if the other T440 fails also with the SSD aboard, to see what happens.
Meantime if anyone has any information about this issue I'd be grateful if you coud share.
Thanks
CT

Does the install provide any logging? Does execmgr.log show any other info?
Per the readme, it should be setup.exe.
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/girc15ww.txt
Unattended Install
This is for system administrators' use only.
1. Refer to the Manual Install section, and download and extract the file.
2. In the step 11 of the Installing files section, uncheck the checkbox next
to "Install ..... now", and then select Finish to cancel installation.
3. At the command line, execute Setup.exe with the -s option.
Example: [Path where the files were extracted]\Setup -s
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