Do Intel SSD drives have appropriate Arm64 tooling to allow us to do an in-place firmware upgrade?

[TNguy230]

We use these drives (Intel Part Number: SSDSC2BB012T701 - 1.2 TB SATA SSD, and SSDPE2KE016T7 - 1.6 TB 2.5 NVMe SSD) in our Arm64 Server (Lenovo HR350A). Wondering if Intel drives have appropriate Arm64 tooling to allow us to do an in-place firmware upgrade? We would like to avoid physically pulling drives and attaching them to an x86 system to upgrade the firmware.  Basically do you have a firmware upgrade tool for the Arm64 Servers?

Thanks

-Tinh

[TLars]

Hi Josh,

I received e-mail with Subject "** FIRMWARE update needed ** - Intel SATA SSDs S4610 & S4510, *only* with sizes 1.92TB & 3.84TB"

I have a mixed heterogeneous environment with various hardware. Among them I have 4 qty R281-T94 nodes with a total of 16 qty 1.92TB S4610's.

Running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS with 4.15.0-72-generic aarch64.

Any suggestions on how to update all the drives? All are affected.

oot@n005:~# smartctl -x /dev/sdb

smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [aarch64-linux-4.15.0-72-generic] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model:   INTEL SSDSC2KG019T8

Serial Number:  PHYG850000ME1P9DGN

LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 150613cad

Firmware Version: XCV10100

User Capacity:  1,920,383,410,176 bytes [1.92 TB]

Sector Sizes:   512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical

Rotation Rate:  Solid State Device

Form Factor:   2.5 inches

Device is:    Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]

ATA Version is:  ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5

SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is:  Mon Dec 16 14:00:40 2019 CET

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

AAM feature is:  Unavailable

APM feature is:  Unavailable

Rd look-ahead is: Enabled

Write cache is:  Enabled

ATA Security is: Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]

Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled

Brgds,

ToreL