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

[Luc Verhaegen]

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 ...

I recently had a quick look at something related, and noticed that there 
is a well-defined ATAPI call to flash the firmware. It can be found in 
the publically available atapi specs.

Luc Verhaegen.