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List:       qubes-users
Subject:    Re: [qubes-users] Windows 7 VM - Direct access to Hard Drives to flash SSD firmware
From:       Steve <stephen.pantony () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-01-13 4:20:18
Message-ID: 3d8e2a25-4adb-4f13-9684-2e2fc2d0b04d () googlegroups ! com
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On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 7:15:41 AM UTC+4, Tai...@gmx.com wrote:
> On 01/12/2017 07:52 AM, Steve wrote:
> 
> > I need to run Samsung Magician software in Windows to flash the firmware of the \
> > SSD's I put in the laptop, is there any special way I need to setup the Windows \
> > VM to give direct access to the firmware 
> You would have to attach to the VM with IOMMU the storage controller 
> that the drive is connected to,
> 
> Obviously you can't do that if you are also using this controller for 
> your OS, without some ramdisk magic which is possible with some effort 
> but if you have the money it would be cheaper to simply buy an 
> Expresscard controller that supports SATA (fyi SAS almost always 
> includes SATA)
> 
> In the future don't buy crappy consumer level devices that only provide 
> a windows flashing utility.

Thank you for the ExpressCard suggestion, that is possible. I also have two internal \
mSata slots and will check whether they are on a different controller than the main \
SATA

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