ordos Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 It is my intention to use hparm's firmware download to update the firmware of Force 3 240GB SSDs (CSSD-F240GB3A-BK). However, I do not know the signature of the SSD (or know of way to figure out what it is without using Windows) to know which .vic file to use. If someone could shed some light as to which .vic file to use or a means to find the signature I would appreciate it. Please keep in mind that I DO NOT have access to a windows machine and refuse to use a windows livecd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 There's no way to know that I am aware of without looking at the drive with the Windows based firmware update tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 THIS THREAD might help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 I have several hundred drives that I may need to update firmware for. They are all CSSD-F240GB3A-BK purchased at the same time. Is it possible for them to have different signatures? In general what is the drive signature? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 It varies depending on things specific to each drive. That's why SandForce supplies different signature versions. There is no general or typical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlZ Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 May we know that is the specifics why there are different 'signatures' for these drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 May we know that is the specifics why there are different 'signatures' for these drives? Different NAND among other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 For those interested in trying to find their drives signature via linux, the following command may help you... sudo lshw | less It shows the signature for my machines onboard disk drive but not any of the SSDs that I have attached to it. I also tried on another machine that has 2 SSDs in RAID 1 but no signatures are displayed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlZ Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Different NAND among other things. My guess was right, though Im wondering if its caused by the 5.03 FW or a different NAND on my Bnew replacement ForceGT 240 that Im getting 10MB/s less on the 4k read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactalla Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 ordos, how did you make out with your upgrade? If you're still trying to find the signature of your drive, look into the Linux updater mentioned in the thread Yellowbeard linked. It's not permitted to have a public link here to the tool, so if you have trouble finding it just PM me. Since you have so many drives to update I expect you'd prefer a CLI method. The usual methods of pulling info from drives seems to miss this bit of information as you've already seen. I'd be interested to know how the updater tool probes for that information, but I doubt SandForce would make it much of a priority to divulge such information. I would like to know whether the hdparm update method works on these drives, so please report back if/when you try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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