Jason Scurtu xarbit

Update firmware WD Black SN770 firmware on Arch Linux

Been having problems with my new SN770 drive, and decided to check if I can firmware update it on Linux. WD only provides a Windows tool, Western Digital Dashboard to download and install firmwares, but, it's possible to find the firmware and install it using Linux tooling as well.

1. Check that `nvme-cli` is installed:

❱ sudo pacman -S nvme-cli

Building on Ubuntu 23.04

You have 2 options, use the script descrived bellow or follow the instrutions

script in this gist if you want the source code

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Vertecedoc4545/6e54487f07a1888b656b656c0cdd9764/raw/2c5e8ccb428fc331307e2f653cab88174c051310/build-ubuntu-23.sh
chmod +x build-ubuntu-23.sh
./build-ubuntu-23.sh

Imaging

Assuming macOS and an SD card presented as /dev/rdisk3:

For ARMv7 (Pi 2):

diskutil unmountDisk disk3
xzcat ubuntu-18.04.2-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi2.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=32m

	@import Darwin;
	@import Foundation;
	@import IOKit;

	// clang -fmodules -o i2cwrite i2cwrite.m && ./i2cwrite

	typedef CFTypeRef IOAVServiceRef;
	extern IOAVServiceRef IOAVServiceCreate(CFAllocatorRef allocator);
	extern IOReturn IOAVServiceCopyEDID(IOAVServiceRef service, CFDataRef* x2);
	// outputBufferSize must be less than (1 << 12) (4096 bytes)

	@import Darwin;
	@import Foundation;
	@import IOKit;

	// clang -fmodules -o brt brt.m && ./brt

	// credit to @zhuowei for discovering the following APIs
	typedef CFTypeRef IOAVServiceRef;
	extern IOAVServiceRef IOAVServiceCreate(CFAllocatorRef allocator);
	extern IOReturn IOAVServiceCopyEDID(IOAVServiceRef service, CFDataRef* x2);

	#!/bin/bash
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
	#
	# Tested on freshly installed Manjaro 22.0.5 Gnome.
	pamac build trizen
	cat >/tmp/convert.sh <<EOF
	pacman -Qq \| grep pamac \| xargs pacman -Rs --noconfirm manjaro-application-utility
	pacman -Rdd manjaro-release bashrc-manjaro manjaro-keyring python-manjaro-sdk
	pacman -U https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/{lsb-release,pacman{,-mirrorlist}}/download/
	mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

	concurrent = 4
	check_interval = 0

	[session_server]
	session_timeout = 1800

	[[runners]]
	name = "autoscale-runner"
	url = "https://gitlab.com/"
	token = "<YOUR TOKEN HERE>"

	#!/bin/sh

	# Set the macOS installer path as a variable
	MACOS_INSTALLER="/Applications/$(ls /Applications \| grep "Install macOS")"
	MOUNT_POINT="$MACOS_INSTALLER/Contents/SharedSupport"
	echo "macOS installer is \"$MACOS_INSTALLER\""

	# Set the target disk as a variable
	TARGET=$(diskutil info "$(bless --info --getBoot)" \| awk -F':' '/Volume Name/ { print $2 }' \| sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
	echo "Target disk is \"$TARGET\""

	#!/bin/bash

	CLUSTERNAME=mycluster.mydomain
	NAMESPACE=default
	USERNAME=myclusteruser
	GROUPNAME=mygroup

	openssl genrsa -out ${USERNAME}.key 2048

	CSR_FILE=$USERNAME.csr

Jason Scurtu xarbit

Update firmware WD Black SN770 firmware on Arch Linux

1. Check that nvme-cli is installed:

Building on Ubuntu 23.04

Imaging

1. Check that `nvme-cli` is installed: