program in Wine doesnt see SATA solid state drive

patch · Post by **patch** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:49 pm

I have a 50 gig OCZ Vertex LE drive that needs a firmware update.

When I run the Windows only flash program in wine it doesnt see the SATA ssd drive it needs to flash.

I have booted off another hard disk.

I need administrator privileges to see the drive so I config'd wine for win98.

I also tried to manually add the drive in wine config by adding the /media/xxxx path and also manually assigning Label and Serial.

the program is located at

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/staff ... %20110.zip

please help as I refuse to use windows natively or in Vbox and I need to be able to upgrade firmware on this drive!

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:21 pm

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, patch <[email protected]> wrote:

I have a 50 gig OCZ Vertex LE drive that needs a firmware update.

When I run the Windows only flash program in wine it doesnt see the SATA ssd drive it needs to flash.

I have booted off another hard disk.

I need administrator privileges to see the drive so I config'd wine for win98.

I also tried to manually add the drive in wine config by adding the /media/xxxx path and also manually assigning Label and Serial.

the program is located at

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/staff ... %20110.zip

please help as I refuse to use windows natively or in Vbox and I need to be able to upgrade firmware on this drive!

Neither wine nor virtual box should provide direct access to the hardware.

John

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:19 pm

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 21:49, patch <[email protected]> wrote:

I have a 50 gig OCZ Vertex LE drive that needs a firmware update.

When I run the Windows only flash program in wine it doesnt see the SATA ssd drive it needs to flash.

Wine under root after playing a lot with the permissions (using a
special wrapper to run Wine with those permissions) might MAYBE have a
chance to work... You will probably need enough permissions to allow
it to do some really, really nasty things (If it doesn't confict with
the Linux kernel/take out the drive due to a crash / accidentally
break a different drive...).... (Full direct IO access and some more
MIGHT work, if it uses direct assembly to talk to the drive and \not
some kind of driver... It might also result in a Wine bug destroying
hardware (by say flashing your BIOS))

please help as I refuse to use windows natively or in Vbox and I need to be able to upgrade firmware on this drive!

Stop buying hardware that doesn't work properly if you do not have
Windows. (If you are bored and live in the right country you might be
able to force at least a refund with the help of consumer protection
legislation and a lawyer) If you do buy Windows-only hardware, do not
complain if it requires Windows to run....

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:26 pm

Someone mentioned that a Linux flasher is being worked on:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum ... pdate-1.05

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:31 pm

Stop buying hardware that doesn't work properly if you do not have
Windows. (If you are bored and live in the right country you might be
able to force at least a refund with the help of consumer protection
legislation and a lawyer) If you do buy Windows-only hardware, do not
complain if it requires Windows to run....

Please... this is not a driver for a windows locked product like the good old winmodems, but a firmware upgrade program.

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:08 pm

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 19:31 -0500, Usurp wrote:

Stop buying hardware that doesn't work properly if you do not have
Windows. (If you are bored and live in the right country you might be
able to force at least a refund with the help of consumer protection
legislation and a lawyer) If you do buy Windows-only hardware, do not
complain if it requires Windows to run....
Please... this is not a driver for a windows locked product like the good old winmodems, but a firmware upgrade program.

Have you asked the vendor for the Linux version of the flasher?

If they don't supply one or a way of flashing it under Linux, then it
sounds like windows locking to me....

Alternatively, if the flasher can be run under DOS, download FreeDOS and
boot into that to do your upgrade.

Martin

patch · Post by **patch** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:36 am

yeah thats cool, I dont mind bricking it, they will fix it if I send it in.

Basically I could just send it in to be flashed, but I was curious if I could get wine to do it tho.

Sandforce said they are working on a linux native flasher but its not out yet.

Its not a commandline flasher so freedos is out.

They are upgrading these firmwares pretty fast. guess Ill just be left behind on a few till I either break down and do a temp install of winders or send it in.

cheers all

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:15 am

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 15:36, patch <[email protected]> wrote:

yeah thats cool, I dont mind bricking it, they will fix it if I send it in.

The problem is that you might end up bricking something else...

Have a look at http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=2996 it does
give it access to EVERYTHING though...

With that it MIGHT be able to access whatever is needed... (If
flashing is part of the SATA standard, virtualbox might work as well,
if you give it the entire drive... (And the emulated controller
supports passing it on..))

Most likely, some intermediate layer which won't work under Wine is
involved (such as a driver)

Gert