Pm1643a firmware

[Jonasz]

Fingers crossed, please keep me updated. Thanks

 

[michel333]

Fingers crossed, please keep me updated. Thanks

I got my disks today, I'll check it this evening or tomorrow !

 

[Jonasz]

Great, please let me know which HBA controller you are using and GW revision.

 

[michel333]

Great, please let me know which HBA controller you are using and GW revision.

i have a lsi 9305 . So, they seem to work ok!
I have one that even if i format i can't create partition/file system

sudo sg_turs /dev/sg4
test unit ready: Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Medium Error Additional sense: Medium format corrupted Descriptor type: Sense key specific: Actual retry count: 0 Descriptor type: Field replaceable unit code: 0xd Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80] 03 63 31 00 Medium or hardware error

 

[michel333]

So seems that one of them is not working

 

[michel333]

this is working!

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-6.8.0-58-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SAMSUNG
Product: MS9AC2DD2SUN7.6T
Revision: RXA0
Compliance: SPC-5
User Capacity: 7 681 501 126 656 bytes [7,68 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
Formatted with type 1 protection
8 bytes of protection information per logical block
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches

the one that is not working i get a error message:

device Test Unit Ready [medium or hardware error (serious)]
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

 

[michel333]

sudo parted /dev/sde mklabel gpt
Avertissement: Erreur de synchronisation/fermeture /dev/sde : Erreur
d'entrée/sortie
Réessayer/Retry/Ignorer/Ignore?

 

[Jonasz]

can you please check the FW you have on the working ones and the non working one? Thanks

 

[michel333]

It is RXA0 an all of them, that is the firmware right ?

 

[Jonasz]

yes, can you ask the vendor for a more recent firmware? For example GXF2 which is a samsung generic fw.

Good luck

 

[michel333]

yes, can you ask the vendor for a more recent firmware? For example GXF2 which is a samsung generic fw.

Good luck

I don't think he will be able to give me the samsung generic fw; i bought second hand from a person. I will try to see if possible.
Nobody has it here on forum ?

 

[michel333]

yes, can you ask the vendor for a more recent firmware? For example GXF2 which is a samsung generic fw.

Good luck

Do you think that if we will have that firmware we will be able to flash it to our ssd?

 

[Jonasz]

I hope so, the disk on your photo shows fw GXA0 but smartctl show RXA0. Is the fw different on the non working one? Thanks

 

[michel333]

I hope so, the disk on your photo shows fw GXA0 but smartctl show RXA0. Is the fw different on the non working one? Thanks

It is the same! It us the same lot!

 

[Jonasz]

So all disks are on RXA0, correct?

 

[michel333]

Yes

 

[michel333]

Yes

You saw the photo? It is written GXA0

 

[michel333]

View attachment 44719

yours is recently than mines. Why do you want to change the firmware ?

 

[Jonasz]

I can’t partition or format the disks. I am trying to flash a different fw but it does not accept it.

 

[areg]

Hi everyone, got refurbished ddn ssd pm1643a and i did not suceed to make them work , tried all fw version (gxa0 , gxa2 and gxa5) and all sector sizes. The ssd still refuse to be partitioned and writted after that :’( .. someone managed to get them work??
Regards