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I have this exact model, 980 Pro 2TB. It says to update firmware, but how can you do that from Linux? The instructions are all about some Windows program. Than

I have this exact model, 980 Pro 2TB. It says to update firmware, but how can you do that from Linux? The instructions are all about some Windows program. Thanks! EDIT: I'm quite happy with the warning from this article, fixed a potential future problem!

TacticalCoder 4y ago
From TFA it's not just the 980 Pro 2 TB but also all the newer 990, so it's problematic.
- Aardwolf 4y ago
  The article switches from the 980 issue to the 990 issue in a bit of an unclear way, but I think they're independent problems and the firmware update should fix the 980 one?
pentamassiv 4y ago
A few months ago I already updated my Samsung SSD by following this procedure: https://askubuntu.com/a/1386451 https://askubuntu.com/a/1386451. Theoretically they provide an image to boot from to do the update, but the image seems very outdated and did not recognize my keyboard so it was unusable.
- Aardwolf 4y ago
  I now found and followed this: https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/ https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-... And it seems to have worked. After extracting this updater tool and running it, smartctl kept showing the old firmware version (3B2QGXA7), but after reboot it now shows the new version (5B2QGXA7). I took the risk of running this while the OS (Archlinux) was running with the disk mounted (this is the OS install disk), and at first sight this didn't cause issues. But still do it at your own risk!!
  - FullyFunctional 4y ago
    Thanks, but that takes me to old firmware. I was however able to download the new firmware from https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/ https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/t... and use the same procedure and it worked: ├─SSD 980 PRO 2TB: │ Device ID: 03281da317dccd2b18de2bd1cc70a782df40ed7e │ Summary: NVM Express solid state drive │ Current version: 5B2QGXA7 My home is on non-redundant stripe of two 980 Pro which both had the bad firmware, so I was obviously motivated, but not panicked as it's replicated hourly to spinning rust (and I have offsite backups). I treat Flash memory as dynamic ram with only slightly better retention.
    - Aardwolf 4y ago
      The command line example in the link shows the old firmware, but they do say to go to the samsung website and get the latest one there. The 980 was the first one in the list there under the Firmware section.
  - aendruk 4y ago
    Also seems to have worked for me doing 3B2QGXA7→5B2QGXA7 in NixOS. Extract ISO, extract initrd, run fumagician, reboot.
  - YoumuChan 4y ago
    The command can be simplified as isoinfo -R -i xxx.iso -x /initrd | gzip -dc | cpio -idv --no-absolute-filenames "root/fumagician*" if you don't want to go through the mounting and extracting everything.
    - niedzielski 4y ago
      This worked for me, thanks! I have a Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB which I upgraded from 2B2QGXA7 to 5B2QGXA7. I backed up and also made a copy of the output of `sudo smartctl -t long -a /dev/nvme0` before and after.
    - jwatt 4y ago
- qwertox 4y ago
  I think I managed to upgrade the firmware from within Kubuntu (it wasn't the OS Nvme) by using this method https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/ https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-... I've done it some months ago, so I don't remember if it was that one exactly. I'm now relieved to know that 5B2QGXA7 is still the current one.
acidburnNSA 4y ago
Following from my linux desktop. I lost a system SSD that was a 980 2 TB and recently reinstalled everything, thinking it was a fluke. Now worried it will happen again rapidly.
pja 4y ago
nvme drives can be updated from the command line. I've done it myself. Extracting the actual firmware update from the files Samsung gives you might be an issue though.
- amluto 4y ago
  nvme-cli can, in principle, upload firmware. I’ve never personally tried it.
babypuncher 4y ago
I just put the same drive in my PS5 in December. None of my Windows machines have spare NVMe slots, so updating this should be interesting
- 867-5309 4y ago
  boot from Windows on a SATA drive?
ggreer 4y ago
If you're on linux, you probably want to use fwupd[1]. You can check the existing version of your drive's firmware by running `fwupdmgr get-devices`. The version with the fix is 5B2QGXA7. I'm on Arch and apparently I installed the update at some point in the past. 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fwupd https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fwupd
- aendruk 4y ago
  Samsung is publishing some firmware but not this. (https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/#samsung https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/#samsung, https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/5477 https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/5477) $ fwupdmgr get-updates Devices with no available firmware updates: • SSD 980 PRO 2TB It would be good to put some pressure on Samsung to use the Linux Vendor Firmware Service. I just opened a support ticket about it. fwupd is at least manually adding a warning about the affected firmware. https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/5481 https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/5481
  - ggreer 4y ago
    Oops, you're correct. Looking through my shell history, it seems I manually downloaded and installed the firmware update in March of 2022. Here are the commands I ran: curl -O https://semiconductor.samsung.com/resources/software-resources/Samsung_SSD_980_PRO_5B2QGXA7.iso mkdir /mnt/iso sudo mount -v -o loop ./Samsung_SSD_980_PRO_5B2QGXA7.iso /mnt/iso/ mkdir /tmp/fwupdate cd /tmp/fwupdate gzip -dc /mnt/iso/initrd | cpio -idv --no-absolute-filenames cd root/fumagician/ sudo ./fumagician
rogers18445 4y ago
an example: nvme fw-log /dev/nvme0 nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme0 -H | grep Firmware nvme fw-download -f firmware.ebin /dev/nvme0 nvme fw-commit /dev/nvme0 -s 2 -a 3 nvme fw-log /dev/nvme0 In an unlikely event, may need to change the slot (-s)

TacticalCoder 4y ago

From TFA it's not just the 980 Pro 2 TB but also all the newer 990, so it's problematic.

Aardwolf 4y ago
The article switches from the 980 issue to the 990 issue in a bit of an unclear way, but I think they're independent problems and the firmware update should fix the 980 one?

pentamassiv 4y ago

A few months ago I already updated my Samsung SSD by following this procedure: https://askubuntu.com/a/1386451 https://askubuntu.com/a/1386451. Theoretically they provide an image to boot from to do the update, but the image seems very outdated and did not recognize my keyboard so it was unusable.

Aardwolf 4y ago
I now found and followed this: https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/ https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-... And it seems to have worked. After extracting this updater tool and running it, smartctl kept showing the old firmware version (3B2QGXA7), but after reboot it now shows the new version (5B2QGXA7). I took the risk of running this while the OS (Archlinux) was running with the disk mounted (this is the OS install disk), and at first sight this didn't cause issues. But still do it at your own risk!!
- FullyFunctional 4y ago
  Thanks, but that takes me to old firmware. I was however able to download the new firmware from https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/ https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/t... and use the same procedure and it worked: ├─SSD 980 PRO 2TB: │ Device ID: 03281da317dccd2b18de2bd1cc70a782df40ed7e │ Summary: NVM Express solid state drive │ Current version: 5B2QGXA7 My home is on non-redundant stripe of two 980 Pro which both had the bad firmware, so I was obviously motivated, but not panicked as it's replicated hourly to spinning rust (and I have offsite backups). I treat Flash memory as dynamic ram with only slightly better retention.
  - Aardwolf 4y ago
    The command line example in the link shows the old firmware, but they do say to go to the samsung website and get the latest one there. The 980 was the first one in the list there under the Firmware section.
- aendruk 4y ago
  Also seems to have worked for me doing 3B2QGXA7→5B2QGXA7 in NixOS. Extract ISO, extract initrd, run fumagician, reboot.
- YoumuChan 4y ago
  The command can be simplified as isoinfo -R -i xxx.iso -x /initrd | gzip -dc | cpio -idv --no-absolute-filenames "root/fumagician*" if you don't want to go through the mounting and extracting everything.
  - niedzielski 4y ago
    This worked for me, thanks! I have a Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB which I upgraded from 2B2QGXA7 to 5B2QGXA7. I backed up and also made a copy of the output of `sudo smartctl -t long -a /dev/nvme0` before and after.
  - jwatt 4y ago
qwertox 4y ago
I think I managed to upgrade the firmware from within Kubuntu (it wasn't the OS Nvme) by using this method https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/ https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-... I've done it some months ago, so I don't remember if it was that one exactly. I'm now relieved to know that 5B2QGXA7 is still the current one.

acidburnNSA 4y ago

Following from my linux desktop. I lost a system SSD that was a 980 2 TB and recently reinstalled everything, thinking it was a fluke. Now worried it will happen again rapidly.

pja 4y ago

nvme drives can be updated from the command line. I've done it myself. Extracting the actual firmware update from the files Samsung gives you might be an issue though.

amluto 4y ago
nvme-cli can, in principle, upload firmware. I’ve never personally tried it.

babypuncher 4y ago

I just put the same drive in my PS5 in December. None of my Windows machines have spare NVMe slots, so updating this should be interesting

867-5309 4y ago
boot from Windows on a SATA drive?

ggreer 4y ago

If you're on linux, you probably want to use fwupd[1]. You can check the existing version of your drive's firmware by running `fwupdmgr get-devices`. The version with the fix is 5B2QGXA7. I'm on Arch and apparently I installed the update at some point in the past. 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fwupd https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fwupd

aendruk 4y ago
Samsung is publishing some firmware but not this. (https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/#samsung https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/#samsung, https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/5477 https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/5477) $ fwupdmgr get-updates Devices with no available firmware updates: • SSD 980 PRO 2TB It would be good to put some pressure on Samsung to use the Linux Vendor Firmware Service. I just opened a support ticket about it. fwupd is at least manually adding a warning about the affected firmware. https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/5481 https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/5481
- ggreer 4y ago
  Oops, you're correct. Looking through my shell history, it seems I manually downloaded and installed the firmware update in March of 2022. Here are the commands I ran: curl -O https://semiconductor.samsung.com/resources/software-resources/Samsung_SSD_980_PRO_5B2QGXA7.iso mkdir /mnt/iso sudo mount -v -o loop ./Samsung_SSD_980_PRO_5B2QGXA7.iso /mnt/iso/ mkdir /tmp/fwupdate cd /tmp/fwupdate gzip -dc /mnt/iso/initrd | cpio -idv --no-absolute-filenames cd root/fumagician/ sudo ./fumagician

rogers18445 4y ago

an example: nvme fw-log /dev/nvme0 nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme0 -H | grep Firmware nvme fw-download -f firmware.ebin /dev/nvme0 nvme fw-commit /dev/nvme0 -s 2 -a 3 nvme fw-log /dev/nvme0 In an unlikely event, may need to change the slot (-s)