How to update the SSD firmware of the 9370?

Hi,

I can give you absolutely 0% certainty that this works and it definitely isn't supported by Dell, but you MIGHT be able to update your firmware using the Toshiba CLOUT  software. I'm running firmware version AADA4104 and it says no updates are available and to my knowledge the latest version is AADA4105, so I'm far from certain about this.

Jeroen

The nvme package includes commands to download and install firmware.

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/nvme-cli/nvme-fw-download.1.en.html

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/nvme-cli/nvme-fw-commit.1.en.html

I have not tried these. I would be inclined to run these commands after booting from a USB drive rather than try to update firmware on a drive that the system is running from. Firmware on my system is at AADA4104.

I recently got a BIOS update via fwupdate. I would expect the nvme SSD firmware to be updateable by those means as well. However when I run `fwupdmgr get-devices` it seems to only list one device - the system BIOS.

It would be nice of someone from Dell would let us know what their recommended solution for this is.

It will be a while before fwupd supports updating nvme devices:

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2018/08/17/nvme-firmware-i-need-your-data/

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2018/08/21/adventures-with-nvme-part-2/

It looks like Samsung and Toshiba are the largest manufacturers of nvme ssd drives, so with a little luck we will be able to update our drives not to far from now. For now, Dell has recommended I try the Windows PE environment to update my drive, because they don't think it will be ported to Linux soon.

Jeroen