[tech] Yak shaving on Mollitz

[David Adam]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, David Adam wrote:
> 
> > In any case, Mollitz is now running Jessie but with an old kernel, the old 
> > udev and thus no systemd. As the kernel is now unsupported I think it 
> > would be a good idea to look at either upgrading the firmware on the SSD 
> > or replacing it with one that is less likely to lose all the data on it. 
> > This will be complicated by the fact that it is located offsite and also:
> > 
> > "<bob> the top right bay (the one holding the ssd) has a screw holding the 
> > clip closed because it's a hot-swap bay that isn't hot-swap"
> 
> As the offsite provider, what's the info on upgrading the firmware?

You'll need to shut the machine down, pull the drive, put it into 
something that supports AHCI, and then run the firmware upgrade utility. 
The easiest way is the bootable image:
http://ocz.com/consumer/download/firmware/OCZ_Bootable_Tools_v4.9.0.634.iso

[DAA]