On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:26 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Contacted them, since web site seemed to only have > option to upgrade firmware using a windows program? > Got a reply that that is currently the case, and only option > would be to install windows on machine, or remove drive > and put in windows machine to upgrade?? Yeah, I've grown tired of this. I now file complaints with the Attorney General's Office. Maybe they will do something about it one day. > I've got 5 Linux machines at home that all have WD SSD > drives, and a few of the earlier ones have older firmware > that others of the same model.. > > Don't know if makes any real difference or what > improvements firmware updates would do. Kind of > disappointed that they don't have a Linux option. > Have used my Linux based G4L program to image old > drives to the SSD drives with no problems, and had heard > good things on the drives. You might try fwupdmgr (1) and the `fwupdmgr update` command. The rub is, I don't know if fwupdmgr has WD firmware in its database. > Wonder if someone knows of an option. Don't know if > windows program to update firmware might work with > wine or not?? I don't think Wine will work. When I asked about it several years ago I was ridiculed for asking such a dumb question. One thing I've been looking into is Rufus and the 'Windows to Go' thing. It's Windows on a thumb drive. My thinking is, if we can boot the machine to Windows using the thumb drive, we may be able to perform the firmware updates. But I have not tried (yet). The problem with Rufus is, it's not well documented for this use case. It also lacks a mailing list, so we can't ask the community or lookup previous questions/answers on the matter. I think the only support option is email the developer directly, which I have avoided to date. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
