[flashrom] BX100: there is a Linux tool to flash ROM images through any SATA adapter

Jonathan A. Kollasch jakllsch at kollasch.net
Tue Jan 12 17:15:00 CET 2016


On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 06:47:43PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>  Lately I have updated the firmware of my BX100 SSD drive with the
> boot CD as provided by http://www.crucial.com/support/ssd. As it
> turned out the boot CD is powered by Linux and the busybox the
> firmware image being provided under /opt/firmware/MU02/1.bin in
> /boot/core.gz which is a gzipped cpio file.
>  Would anyone care to analyse this media? I would love to see
> HDD/SSD firmware flashing being supported by flashrom through some
> more SATA controllers.
> 
> Elmar
> 
> P.S.: if my hint should not have been particularely helpful I would
> like to know about that as well ...

Flashrom expects to be able to access flash chips directly.
ATA's DOWNLOAD MICROCODE commands are almost certainly completely
unsuitable for the architecture of flashrom.  (Assuming they aren't
using some vendor-specific ATA command to do firmware updates.)

	Jonathan Kollasch




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