[Discuss] SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing—firmware fix for only some promised | Ars Technica

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 4:09 PM Edward <epp at null.net> wrote:
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> I've been testing (?) two external SSD's, one is a Samsung T7 500GB, the other is an 'onn' (Walmart's electronics house brand) 250GB and the trouble I've been having, is just getting Linux installed to them, without ending up with a grub rescue> prompt referencing 'normal.mod not found'.

A quick google search for that error message brings up lots of pages
for people explaining how to fix that problem from grub rescue.   No
explanation about why it would happen on a fresh install though.

Bill Bogstad