Sunday, September 5, 2021

Update SSD firmware

Samsung uses custom linux live CD for update SSD firware. That is big step to right direction if compare to previous FreeDOS boot as for me. And sometime such liveCD does not support your device(press any key when your usb hub is not supported).

But we can run update in linux directly:
  • Download firmware https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/
  • sudo mount -t auto -o loop Downloads/Samsung_SSD_870_QVO_SVQ02B6Q_Win.iso /mnt
  • mkdir /tmp/unpack && cd /tmp/unpack/ && zcat /mnt/initrd | cpio -i
  • init 1 
  • cd /tmp/unpack/root/fumagician/ && ./fumagician 
  • reboot