Update HDD firmware from FreeNAS?

[Sir.Robin]

Is there a way to flash HDD firmware from FreeNAS/FreeBSD?

 

[jgreco]

No. Quite frankly drive mfrs make this harder than it needs to be.

 

[Sir.Robin]

Crap... i installed windows on a separate drive... then i run Dell's utility but i get some stupid error. Can't gt logical drive status.

Any linux bootable with firmware flash capability?

 

[jgreco]

Each drive manufacturer supports their own strange system. It is very hard to generalize.

 

[Sir.Robin]

Sir.Robin: 1
Dell: Nothing

Firmware updated.

:D

 

[jgreco]

You managed to update a Dell with a Linux bootable of some sort? Awesome.

 

[Yatti420]

I just use a bootable DOS USB - http://forums.freenas.org/threads/updating-seagate-hard-drive-firmware.14561/

 

[Sir.Robin]

You managed to update a Dell with a Linux bootable of some sort? Awesome. :)

Well... i gave up on a non-Dell system and borrowed a Dell server. Stupid, but got the job done. Couldn't find any Seagate FW for these.

 

[jgreco]

Heh. I love the firmware updates that are still designed to be booted off a floppy.

 

[Sir.Robin]

Yeah, at least have an iso.

I actally found an CentOS based bootable from dell, but as long as the drives are not in a DELL server, it won't flash the drives. Same error message that i got when in windows with their .exe flashy.

What happened to "keep it simple"??? ffs...

 

[Lordadmiral Drake]

Hardware manufacturers be like "Keep it simple? - We've dismissed that claim."