Fwupd Gaining Support For ATA Device Microcode Updates

[dwagner]

Has anybody successfully updated the firmware of a Dell WD15 docking station using fwupd?

I'm asking because the README.md at https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/tre...r/plugins/dell suggests this to be possible, but in pretty vague wording - and when searching for reports on WD15 updates I can only find "does not work" statements, but without any reference to trying fwupd for this purpose.

[tildearrow]

This is excellent news. I've seen bad ATA microcode kill 100s of drives. *cough* seagate *cough*

I thought Western Digital was more problematic?

[dankles]

This is excellent news. I've seen bad ATA microcode kill 100s of drives. *cough* seagate *cough*

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fwupd Gaining Support For ATA Device Microcode Updates

Richard Hughes of Red Hat continues on his conquest for improving the Linux firmware updating experience: his latest accomplishment is getting support for microcode updates on ATA/ATAPI drives into Fwupd...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fwupd-ATA-Device-Support