PM9A3 Firmware / ERRORMOD related to fw version

[DouglasteR]

Meh, mine is SATA and didnt work

Thanks anyway !

I believe i can save this SSD !

 

[DouglasteR]

I believe i'm almost there !

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated !

 

[Vytas]

Thx. So bad...
Do you think you can recover the data if you turn off trim and run the command:
nvme format /dev/nvme0n1
nvme reset /dev/nvme0
Use data recovery programs to retrieve the information.

THIS WORKED on my PM9A3 with ERRORMOD. After a reset I have managed to update firmware as well. also format it

 

[iliuxa007]

I have a PM9A3 U2 7.68TB drive with GDC5302Q firmware. Today, after rebooting the server, it returned an ERRORMOD error and lost 1GB of storage. How can I fix this? What firmware version should I try flashing? Is it possible to do this without formatting? The drive was in an array and it's crucial to restore the array.

 

[Joel]

I have a PM9A3 U2 7.68TB drive with GDC5302Q firmware. Today, after rebooting the server, it returned an ERRORMOD error and lost 1GB of storage. How can I fix this? What firmware version should I try flashing? Is it possible to do this without formatting? The drive was in an array and it's crucial to restore the array.

From what I recall, the methods in this thread do not recover any data, just the drive itself. It's likely the underlying data is untouched during the process but the partition tables will be lost, making recovery a very sketchy proposition.

 

[iliuxa007]

What can I try? What version should I flash to?

Samsung SSD DC Toolkit Brand Version 3.0.0.2.0
Copyright (C) 2023 SAMSUNG Electronics Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.
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| Disk | Path | Model | Serial | Firmware | Optionrom | Capacity | Drive | Total Bytes | NVMe Driver |
| Number | | | Number | | Version | | Health | Written | |
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| 2:c | /dev/nvme2 | SAMSUNG MZQL27T6HBLA-00A07 | S6CKNE0R722636 | ERRORMOD | LNUSRG39 | 32 GB | N/A | N/A | Unknown |
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[root@ws samsung]# ./Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit_Brand_for_Linux_V3.0 --disk 2:c --nvme-get-log-pages --firmware
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Samsung SSD DC Toolkit Brand Version 3.0.0.2.0
Copyright (C) 2023 SAMSUNG Electronics Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.
================================================================================================
Current activated firmware: slot(#1, GDC5302Q)
Next to be applied firmware: EMPTY

Firmware Slot Information:

Slot #1: GDC5302Q
Slot #2: EMPTY
Slot #3: EMPTY
Slot #4: EMPTY
Slot #5: EMPTY
Slot #6: EMPTY
Slot #7: EMPTY
Slot #8: EMPTY

Also i have a x7 SSD U2 with diff fw
They work, but should I worry about them starting to go into ERRORMOD mode?
Maybe I should update their firmware?

 

[DarkServant]

@iliuxa007
The latest firmware is most likely the best choice (GDC5B02Q), but keep them all at least at GDC5A02Q.
There are some .xslx documents in the repository which can show how many things have changed, even if it's not documented to the latest version, you can imagine for yourself how much has changed.
Another firmware source is HDD-Guru

 

[islam]

Hi everyone, could you please tell me where I can get the firmware for the 983A? Everywhere I look, I can only find the 983 version. Could they be compatible?

 

[DarkServant]

Hi everyone, could you please tell me where I can get the firmware for the 983A? Everywhere I look, I can only find the 983 version. Could they be compatible?

This version of the pm983 used v5 96-layer instead of the v4 64-layer V-NAND, was only a short time on the market, and only in big datacenters (probably made for Amazon). Not the best chances of getting an update without inside connections.

 

[jpecar]

I had to use Samsung_SSD_DC_Toolkit ver. 2.1 and only using this command:

dct --list
dct --disk 1:c --nvme-format-namespace --user-data-erase

I have a bunch of 983 NF1 drives still in production, 7 died so far. I tried this on them, 5 came back and show full capacity, one now shows up as a pcie device but is not picked up by nvme driver anymore and last one is now crashing bios on boot

Will try to run some torture on the revived ones to see if I can still trust them ... Anything you guys recommend for this task besides the regular bonnie++/fio/io500 stuff?