SM863 firmware

[cbarbie]

Will the Dell firmware (GB55) for a MZ7KM960HAHP00D3 work on a MZ7KM960HAHP00D6 (currently GB32)?

 

[zac1]

Worked for me (truncate to 1MB then force with hdparm --fwdownload) but shows 256 reallocated sectors afterward.

 

[cbarbie]

I am not a Linux user, but I could figure out the steps. Is it worth it? There were drives a while back that when they hit a certain# of Power On Hours, would fail. Were the SM863 part of that?

 

[zac1]

The issue I ran into was degraded writes due to "endurance management" firmware bug. Updating was worth it in that case.

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/psa-sm863-endurance-management-firmware-feature-causing-degraded-performance-over-time.38522/

 

[cbarbie]

After reading the info in the links, I guess I am going to be playing with Linux. No way to update it from Windows, correct?

 

[zac1]

Not that I know of. I just live-booted Finnix using a Ventoy USB drive that had an extra partition that I could mount, e.g. `mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt`