PM863 FW File

[Jek123]

What about it? Have you tried either running a Secure Erase using hdparm or used Samsung's enterprise tools to kicking it out of ERRORMOD?

I tried this firmwares:
GA3A_trimmed_448.fwh
GA3A_trimmed_960.fwh
GA3A_trimmed_1472.fwh
GA3A_trimmed_1984.fwh
GA3A_trimmed_2496.fwh

GA3B_trimmed_448.fwh
GA3B_trimmed_960.fwh

GA39_trimmed_448.fwh
GA39_trimmed_960.fwh

GA38_trimmed_448.fwh
GA38_trimmed_960.fwh

Capacity is still 1gb

Secure Erase returns nothing at 960+ trimmed or an error at 448:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 060 00 00 0a 064 51 0 001 21 04 00 060 80 00 00 00 60 00 00 00 60 00 60 00 00 00 00 06

I couldn't find any other firmware
It feels like the firmware isn't being recorded at all
When changing the firmware, absolutely nothing changes, except "bad/missing sense data" error

I performed Secure Erase for every firmware update

upd:
this is also did not work
GXT5103Q.bin
GXT1003Q.bin

 

[Jek123]

Maybe I need some kind of special controller? or RAID controller
flashing from native SATA - no "bad/missing sense data" error
flashing from USB-SATA adapter - has "bad/missing sense data" error

security-erase from USB-SATA adapter - disables the drive for a while, then the drive reappears

security-erase from native SATA - the disk is stay in the system

 

[blunden]

Maybe I need some kind of special controller? or RAID controller
flashing from native SATA - no "bad/missing sense data" error
flashing from USB-SATA adapter - has "bad/missing sense data" error

security-erase from USB-SATA adapter - disables the drive for a while, then the drive reappears

security-erase from native SATA - the disk is stay in the system

A native SATA should be the best. I wouldn't necessarily worry too much about the "SG_IO: bad/missing sense data" warning/error though. If I recall correctly, it didn't affect anything and can simply be ignored.

I'm not sure why there are different firmware files for different sizes as the firnware should normally be the same regardless of size, unless they made an unrelated hardware change.

Did you find out if it's a particular OEM model or a generic Samsung one?

Did you try the Samsung DC Toolkit (there are a few different versions) and its command for taking the drive out of ERRORMOD?

 

[Jek123]

Did you find out if it's a particular OEM model or a generic Samsung one?

looks like generic.
NAND is TLC 32 layers

Spoiler

Did you try the Samsung DC Toolkit (there are a few different versions) and its command for taking the drive out of ERRORMOD?

I have only tried hdparm on Linux
I see Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_for_Windows.exe but I don't have Windows right now
People here said that secure-erase helps, so I didn’t even think about trying DC-Toolkit

 

[blunden]

looks like generic.
NAND is TLC 32 layers

Spoiler

View attachment 45782View attachment 45781

I have only tried hdparm on Linux
I see Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_for_Windows.exe but I don't have Windows right now
People here said that secure-erase helps, so I didn’t even think about trying DC-Toolkit

Yes, unless the model name indicates something else, it's probably generic seeing as the label looks the same as my generic ones.

Yes, secure erase should normally work. I just figured it might be worth trying the Samsung toolkit too. I believe it's available for Linux as well.

 

[bazzaman]

Seen someone selling a solidfire pm863. Can these be reflashed with stock fw.

 

[blunden]

Seen someone selling a solidfire pm863. Can these be reflashed with stock fw.

I don't think so, no. The post below also talks about that

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/pm863-fw-file.18084/post-479745

 

[Hubi]

Hello, picking this thread up, as i am looking for GXT1203Q Firmware for a PM863 SED with -00005 Suffix
Can anyone help me out here?

To be honest I don't even know the Firmware Release Chain/Order. The Naming makes not much sense to met at least.

Like ... what is the Ancient, Oldest, Older, New, Newer, Newest, etc ?

It does NOT seem like it's a Case of "Bigger is better" ...

Quick Example:
PM863 SED -00005 Suffix -> GXT1203Q

GXT1 -> prefix for PM863 SED
2 -> Counter for FW-version starting at 0 to 9, then followed by heaxdecimal A,B,C,D,E,F.
0 -> Not sure if reserved for more than 16 FW versions
3Q -> don't know, wild guess is 3rd gen SATA-SSD as there was no 830 line for enterprise SSD. 88x line has 04Q, 86x line has 3Q, but PM853T has 3Q as well.