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Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Re: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Post by ajb »

" If it’s your boot drive, no luck there and you can try flashing while it’s mounted."

Err no, that's when you boot from USB stick. Or do it from initramfs. Or anything, other than modifying the firmware of a drive you are running from.

Re: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Post by ps »

snvzz wrote: post #3

This is some insanity that shouldn't be needed, when fwupd[0] exists. Samsung is to blame for this. [0]: https://fwupd.org/

I had run into the same problem with Kingston - no firmware on the web, update tool only for Windows. Had to ask local distributor to contact Kingston and ask for firmware. I was lucky to get it, but never bought another Kingston drive.

I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.

Re: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Post by hef19898 »

ps wrote: post #6
snvzz wrote: post #3

This is some insanity that shouldn't be needed, when fwupd[0] exists. Samsung is to blame for this. [0]: https://fwupd.org/

I had run into the same problem with Kingston - no firmware on the web, update tool only for Windows. Had to ask local distributor to contact Kingston and ask for firmware. I was lucky to get it, but never bought another Kingston drive. I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.

Would it work to update the firmware under Windows and then switch back to Linux?

Re: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

hef19898 wrote: post #7
ps wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had run into the same problem with Kingston - no firmware on the web, update tool only for Windows. Had to ask local distributor to contact Kingston and ask for firmware. I was lucky to get it, but never bought another Kingston drive. I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.

Would it work to update the firmware under Windows and then switch back to Linux?

Of course.

Re: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Post by snvzz »

hef19898 wrote: post #7
ps wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had run into the same problem with Kingston - no firmware on the web, update tool only for Windows. Had to ask local distributor to contact Kingston and ask for firmware. I was lucky to get it, but never bought another Kingston drive. I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.

Would it work to update the firmware under Windows and then switch back to Linux?

Likely. It would be very inconvenient, but I could pull it off on my home's desktop computer.

Now consider doing this at scale, in a datacenter, or just some office that has a lot of these drives. Ouch.

Re: Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux

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Post by Brian_K_White »

hef19898 wrote: post #7
ps wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had run into the same problem with Kingston - no firmware on the web, update tool only for Windows. Had to ask local distributor to contact Kingston and ask for firmware. I was lucky to get it, but never bought another Kingston drive. I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.

Would it work to update the firmware under Windows and then switch back to Linux?

Yes but a thumb drive win10 is a pia to make and then an extra pia to try to boot on any machine other than the one it was created on.
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