Issues updating Samsung 860 EVO ssd firmware
by Yetoo from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5P5AW)
I want to update my Samsung 860 EVO ssd firmware on linux, but I'm encountering errors. Some background to the situation is that Samsung provides an iso to make a linux livecd with to update firmware, but apparently Samsung has recently stopped caring about the quality of those images and they don't work. What some people have done is extract the initrd from the iso and run the updater locally on their system. Here are some posts I found and have been following that show how to do that (the blog seems to have gotten its information from the reddit thread):
https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comment..._ssd_firmware/
https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/...in-linux.html/
When I follow all those steps including installing unzip as mentioned in both posts, the updater scans for a bit and then aborts with the following error message:
Code:eError_TransportFailed from ATACmd_Identify.cpp
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'FeatException'
AbortedI have been unable to find much discussion about this error message and not sure how to resolve it. I'm cautious of running the updater with gdb because I don't want different behavior screwing the ssd while debugging if undefined behavior is causing this. I have everything backed up, but I don't want a bricked ssd at the moment.
I am trying to update the firmware from RVT02B6Q to RVT04B6Q.
https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comment..._ssd_firmware/
https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/...in-linux.html/
When I follow all those steps including installing unzip as mentioned in both posts, the updater scans for a bit and then aborts with the following error message:
Code:eError_TransportFailed from ATACmd_Identify.cpp
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'FeatException'
AbortedI have been unable to find much discussion about this error message and not sure how to resolve it. I'm cautious of running the updater with gdb because I don't want different behavior screwing the ssd while debugging if undefined behavior is causing this. I have everything backed up, but I don't want a bricked ssd at the moment.
I am trying to update the firmware from RVT02B6Q to RVT04B6Q.