SSD firmware is unlikely to cause that sort of issue. SATA/SAS is a pretty well defined protocol that defines a significant level of standardized basic functionality.
Trackpad's and similar devices usually require a special vendor provided driver to use most features, and there really are no generic standardized basic functions for most of it, so the vendor can re-work the protocol and the driver whenever they feel like it since there is no standard to conform to. Likely you will have to attach it to a real windows device. Wine emulates basic windows, doing the sort of barely documented low level SATA/SAS calls needed for firmware update likely has no viable translation layer to work in wine on Linux. On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:01 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Thanks for the info. Wasn't aware that firmware update > could cause that kind of problem. > > > On 19 Dec 2022 at 11:51, Mr Brian Domenick wrote: > > Date sent: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:51:48 -0800 > Subject: Re: OT: Can Fedora upgrade firmware on > WD SSD drives? > To: noloa...@gmail.com, > Community support for Fedora users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>, > mi...@guam.net > From: Mr Brian Domenick > <bdomen...@gmail.com> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora > users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > Keep in mind, when you do the update in windows you then don't > > necessarily have linux drivers that match the new firmware. i was burned > > on this a few months back with the trackpad and i ended up just buying > > another one from china that was unupgraded after the trackpad was > > upgraded when windows was running. i learned my lesson since then. If > > its working and the firmware is not available via fwupdmgr then I am not > > loading it. Trying to get any of the groups to deal with it is a pain in > > the ass at each step. Eventually Lenovo admitted to me it was there > > problem and they had a tool available by request to remove the update > > that was applied, but by that point, it was replaced already and this > > was not through the support channel that offerred me the tool. > > > > On 12/19/22 11:43 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:26 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users > > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > >> Contacted them, since web site seemed to only have > > >> option to upgrade firmware using a windows program? > > >> Got a reply that that is currently the case, and only option > > >> would be to install windows on machine, or remove drive > > >> and put in windows machine to upgrade?? > > > Yeah, I've grown tired of this. I now file complaints with the > > > Attorney General's Office. Maybe they will do something about it one > > > day. > > > > > >> I've got 5 Linux machines at home that all have WD SSD > > >> drives, and a few of the earlier ones have older firmware > > >> that others of the same model.. > > >> > > >> Don't know if makes any real difference or what > > >> improvements firmware updates would do. Kind of > > >> disappointed that they don't have a Linux option. > > >> Have used my Linux based G4L program to image old > > >> drives to the SSD drives with no problems, and had heard > > >> good things on the drives. > > > You might try fwupdmgr (1) and the `fwupdmgr update` command. > > > > > > The rub is, I don't know if fwupdmgr has WD firmware in its database. > > > > > >> Wonder if someone knows of an option. Don't know if > > >> windows program to update firmware might work with > > >> wine or not?? > > > I don't think Wine will work. When I asked about it several years ago > > > I was ridiculed for asking such a dumb question. > > > > > > One thing I've been looking into is Rufus and the 'Windows to Go' > > > thing. It's Windows on a thumb drive. My thinking is, if we can boot > > > the machine to Windows using the thumb drive, we may be able to > > > perform the firmware updates. But I have not tried (yet). > > > > > > The problem with Rufus is, it's not well documented for this use case. > > > It also lacks a mailing list, so we can't ask the community or lookup > > > previous questions/answers on the matter. I think the only support > > > option is email the developer directly, which I have avoided to date. > > > > > > Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. 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