wine users - Jun 2010 - program in Wine doesnt see SATA solid state drive

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/tony/OCZ_SF_110/OCZ%20Vertex_Agility2_%20update%20tool%20fw%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!

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, patch <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
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/tony/OCZ_SF_110/OCZ%20Vertex_Agility2_%20update%20tool%20fw%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

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 21:49, patch <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
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....

Someone mentioned that a Linux flasher is being worked on:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/entry.php?13-Vertex-LE-Firmware-update-1.05

> 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.

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