Silicon Motion NVMe / Intel N38 QLC – Page marker checking and ECC errors after custom translator creation

[grooovie]

Hello,

I have a 1 TB NVMe SSD based on a Silicon Motion controller. SM2263XT

The loader can be uploaded successfully and the custom translator creation completes. However, there is no usable logical access afterwards.

SSD/NAND information:

Loader 1: MPISP_SI001A.bin
Loader 2: [second loader name]

NAND ID: 89 D3 AC 32 C6 00
Vendor: Intel
Type: 144L N38 QLC 16K
Channels: 4
Total chips: 8
Planes per chip: 4
LUNs per chip: 1
Blocks per chip: 0x0102
Pages per block: 0x9000
Page size: 0x4000
Max retry level: 0x00

Estimated SSD capacity:
2,000,409,264 LBA

During translator creation, many messages appear:

- L2P table checking error
- Invalid block
- Invalid chunk
- Bad pages count
- ECC error

The translator creation itself completes.

A Data Extractor task was created from the active PC-3000 utility. All tested logical sectors are either:

1. empty/zero-filled, or
2. black with “Page marker checking error”, or
3. black with “ECC error”.

No valid GPT, partition structure or file-system structures are visible.

Please confirm whether this exact controller, firmware and Intel N38 QLC configuration is fully supported.

Is a newer/custom loader, another NAND configuration, a different page-marker configuration or Read Retry support required?

[grooovie]

still some fotos

[grooovie]

Additional information:

The values “Model SM2260”, “Firmware 1030” and “Capacity 1 GB”
are displayed only after uploading the loader and are not the original
SSD identification data.

Exact SSD model: Silicon Power A60

PC-3000 Portable software version: 7.7.21
Second loader used: MPISP_U0817A_HYNV6.bin

Both loaders produce the same result:
translator creation completes, but there is no usable logical access.

[Roman_TS]

At this moment QLC chips are not supported in SM226x Utilities, doesn't matter is it SM2263XT, SM2262EN, SM2263En, SM2267XT or SM2269XT.