Comment 226 for bug 445852

@Trey, technically they're not 'bricked'. You can revive them fairly easily. I revived two (including the one Martin logged into) by using dd to copy zeroes over the entire SSD. Once done I did a Jaunty install (this was a few months ago) and upgraded to karmic, but before rebooting to the new upgraded karmic install I did what's recommended in the description (as per comment #145).

It's been running karmic fine for ages. According to Martin Lucid does not suffer from this problem so you could dd zeroes then install the Lucid beta and be safe.