I know I'm kinda off topic but I felt this was important to be documented somewhere.
I got my hands on a Corsair STRAFE (the non RGB version), stuck in bootloader mode (only a small block device showing up, containing firmware.bin).
After many many tries i found out I needed to use mtools to copy the firmware over, since normal cp didn't work.
TL;DR: to fix a broken firmware
Press the reset/ESC button, then plug in the keyboard while pressing it
Use lsblk to find which device it is (here /dev/sdx)
Issue these commands, with root privileges
# Delete old firmware
mdel -i /dev/sdx "::*.*"
# Copy new firmware
mcopy -i /dev/sdx /path/to/new/firmware.bin "::firmware.bin"
Sorry if opening an issue was inappropriate or if this was already known.
I know I'm kinda off topic but I felt this was important to be documented somewhere. I got my hands on a Corsair STRAFE (the non RGB version), stuck in bootloader mode (only a small block device showing up, containing firmware.bin). After many many tries i found out I needed to use mtools to copy the firmware over, since normal cp didn't work. TL;DR: to fix a broken firmware
lsblkto find which device it is (here /dev/sdx)Sorry if opening an issue was inappropriate or if this was already known.