[13:24] Hi all [13:41] morning [13:41] Snaps update: The extension is done and will be merged. Though we still have to wait for a release. My frameworks ppa for focal to do security updates has been a battle due to random dependency failures, but it builds fine in a focal chroot.. anyway, finally got qtbase to build, so starting the rest of qt now, then frameworks. This has been quite a lot of work! I need to come up with a better solution for next core update. [13:54] heyo BluesKaj and sgmoore (@sgmoore:kde.org) good to see you folks [14:00] 'morning ahoneybun[m]. nice to see you too [14:01] brb, gotta reboot [14:09] morning [20:27] mmikowski: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/samsung-releases-firmware-fix-for-rapid-failure-issue-in-new-990-pro-ssds/ Not sure if this will effect some Kubuntu Focus systems or not, but you may want to be aware of that. (FWIW I just tried to update my 970 EVO and it was already on the latest firmware so I'm guessing this likely doesn't affect at least certain 1 TB XE systems.) [20:27] I don't think I have seen any. [21:44] arraybolt3: Thank you! We actually are holding back on 990 adoption for this reason. We also benched internally, and the 990 Pro is only faster for some PCIe 4 systems; in others, it's actually slower. [21:44] So at this point, no KFocus systems "in the wild" have 980 or 990 SSDs. [21:44] Ah, nice. [21:45] Sounds like you have this figured out then. Thanks for letting me know! [21:45] You're welcome Aaron. Good to see you, btw! [21:46] Thanks! Gonna finish a final bit of work in LXQt and then probably finish up the work needed on the theme change bug. [21:46] (Just need to find a minimal delta that fixes the glitch, and ensure it works reliably on Kubuntu 22.04, then I can MR it and maybe even get an upload sponsored into Ubuntu. [21:47] We still have to update the BIOS on the 990 we have in house; you've probably heard they lose 1% health every day. So in 100 days, they're all "used up" [21:47] Thank Aaron! [21:47] Sheesh. DIdn't know it was that bad. [21:48] Good to know. [21:48] mmikowski: I wonder if a Secure Erase would undo the "damage" assuming it's a firmware glitch and not real wear. Anyway, just a though. [21:48] *thought [21:48] It almost definitely depends on usage, so ours is currently powered-off and set aside. [21:49] The reports now are the firmware will stop the counter, but does not reset it. [21:49] According to the press, that is not possible. [21:49] Ars Technica, IIRC. [21:50] Dang. That stinks. Usually a Secure Erase command will force-reset an SSDs protection mechanisms and make a read-only locked SSD "unlock", I wonder if the 990 Pro is different. [21:50] Hmm, I don't know. Hopefully, I won't have to know :) [21:50] +1 [21:52] We held back on the 980/990s because we found the 980 PCIe 4 replacement had a different performance profile, but everything beyond peak transfer speeds was a mixed bag, so we didn't upgrade. [21:53] The TLC memory plus DRAM-less design was a problem. [21:53] The 990 Pro promises much better, but now there's that firmware issue. So we are on hold there. [21:53] If we ship any soon, we will need to test and upgrade the bios. [21:54] Makes sense. [21:54] If we had shipped, we would have had to create a focusrx tool to update it. Thankfully, we don't have to :) [21:54] As a hint, I attempted to boot the firmware ISO for the 970 EVO on this XE and it *did not boot*. I don't know if the 990 behaves the same, but at least some of Samsung's firmware update ISOs are wonky. [21:54] Thankfully you can apparently extract the updater tool from the ISO and run it on (K)Ubuntu. [21:55] Should it come in handy, https://askubuntu.com/questions/1348219/how-to-update-samsung-ssd-firmware-from-ubuntu [21:55] Hmm, interesting! Yeah, the nvme command can load a firmware slot. [21:56] The Samsung ISO just boots to a black screen, but I was able to run the "fumagician" bit inside on the KFocus 22.04 ISO and it worked just fine (at least to tell me that my firmware was up-to-date). [21:56] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/samsung-releases-firmware-fix-for-rapid-failure-issue-in-new-990-pro-ssds/ [21:57] ^^ And there's the problem :) [21:57] Thanks arraybolt3! Those I very handy. I will add to the ticket. [22:01] arraybolt3: Sorry to trouble you, but is this the source for fumagician? https://github.com/chrivers/samsung-firmware-magic [22:01] I don't know, I'll check. I extracted fumagician out of the ISO directly from Samsung. [22:02] mmikowski: That's a decrypter for the firmware blob, I don't think that's helpful. [22:03] fumagician is a tool from Samsung - it's the updater inside the firmware update ISO itself. I assume it's proprietary. [22:05] hmm, where do you get it? [22:05] https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/ [22:05] download from samsung right [22:05] Under the Firmware section. [22:05] ahh, very nice [22:05] (Interesting that they encrypt the firmware blob, but hey, as long as the SSD works I'm happy :D) [22:05] Thanks so much! Adding all that to ticket now! [22:06] Glad to help! [22:06] Cheers!