Re: [GTALUG] war story in progress: NVMe drive
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 01:24:41PM -0500, Jason Shaw via talk wrote: > You may be able to use virtualbox and a Windows image to run the upgrade. > > Here's a nice list of where you can find images: > https://github.com/SheepKid12/msft-modern.ie-images#available-images Well certainly PCIe passthrough should be able to pass through NVMe drives to a VM, but that means you can't be using that NVMe drive from the host at all, so you need another drive to be running your OS from while running the VM with windows to update the NVMe. Do bootable USB versions of windows exist? https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-run-windows-10-from-a-usb-drive seems to say it's possible. That might be simpler for just running a firmware update if needed. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [GTALUG] war story in progress: NVMe drive
You may be able to use virtualbox and a Windows image to run the upgrade. Here's a nice list of where you can find images: https://github.com/SheepKid12/msft-modern.ie-images#available-images -jason On Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 12:46 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I bought a used ThinkCentre M75q tiny desktop computer through kijiji. > I upgraded the RAM and disk. > For a disk, I bought a WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe drive. > > I've installed it and installed Fedora Linux on it. All fine. > > I don't know that much about management of NVME drives. They mostly just > work. But I got curious about firmware updates. > > - WD only supports firmware updates through Windows or MacOS! > > - this machine has no Windows license (surprising but true) or > installation. Less surprising, it has no MacOS license or installation. > > - there seems to have been a firmware update a while back (some reddit > queries about it five months ago). > > - My unit is probably new enough that it came with that new firmware. How > to check? > > - this article points to an NVMe tool for linux: > https://opensource.com/article/21/9/nvme-cli > > - nvme-cli works and seems useful but I don't really know how to read the > output. It does say "frmw : 0x14" which might contain the required > information. > > - When I try to log in to WD support, they say that I must change my > password (their site must have been compromised since I last logged in). > When I OK that, they say that they have emailed me a link but it does > not arrive. > > How frustrating. > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
[GTALUG] war story in progress: NVMe drive
I bought a used ThinkCentre M75q tiny desktop computer through kijiji. I upgraded the RAM and disk. For a disk, I bought a WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe drive. I've installed it and installed Fedora Linux on it. All fine. I don't know that much about management of NVME drives. They mostly just work. But I got curious about firmware updates. - WD only supports firmware updates through Windows or MacOS! - this machine has no Windows license (surprising but true) or installation. Less surprising, it has no MacOS license or installation. - there seems to have been a firmware update a while back (some reddit queries about it five months ago). - My unit is probably new enough that it came with that new firmware. How to check? - this article points to an NVMe tool for linux: https://opensource.com/article/21/9/nvme-cli - nvme-cli works and seems useful but I don't really know how to read the output. It does say "frmw : 0x14" which might contain the required information. - When I try to log in to WD support, they say that I must change my password (their site must have been compromised since I last logged in). When I OK that, they say that they have emailed me a link but it does not arrive. How frustrating. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
