The SSD has switched to readonly, which means it won't let you change
its contents but you can likely retrieve your data from it later.

I would not use it for anything else.

On Sun, 2025-08-17 at 20:52 +0100, James Johnson wrote:
> Hello everyone. I have a simple machine running OpenBSD. I think it
> might have overheat a bit. It won't boot with the SSD, as it usually
> did.
> I booted the machine with the openbsd install image, on a usb key,
> and ran fsck on the SSD. it showed 20 sectors with the mention
> "CANNOT WRITE: BLK XXX", and finished with the mention "The following
> sectors could not be written: XXX"
> 
> However, the sd0i partition itself (with the boot) is fine, from an
> fsck perspective, and it contains the expected boot files. Yet, the
> machine won't boot on it.
> 
> Any advice on what I should do? And specifically, is the SSD
> salvageable, can I still use it, or should I put it to the bin and
> buy a new one?
> 
> Thanks
> 

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