NVME-MICRON-SELECT(1)

🌸 nvme-micron-selective-download(1) 🌸

okay bestie, buckle up 💅 this page lives in the NVMe Manual and it's all about nvme-micron-selective-download — the Micron 9200's own lil selective-firmware-download era. no cap, this one's niche but iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

nvme-micron-selective-download — does a selective firmware download that lets you, the main character, pick which firmware binary gets updated on 9200 devices 🔥 heads up tho: the update only completes after a power cycle. literally required. don't skip it 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nvme [<global-options>] micron selective-download <device>
                        [--fw=<FILE>, -f <FILE>]
                        [--select=<flag>, -s <flag>]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so this command uses Micron vendor-specific nvme commands to download a given firmware image to the 9200 device, and it updates the selected portions — or all of them — of that firmware image. it's giving precision updates 💖

the <device> parameter is mandatory (no skipping, bestie, it's required fr fr) and it can be either:

• the NVMe character device (example: /dev/nvme0), or
• a namespace block device (example: /dev/nvme0n1)

🚨 okay this part matters: this will only work on Micron devices devices of model number 9200. support for new devices be added subsequently. results for any other device are undefined — so, like, do not 💀

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -f <FILE>, --fw=<FILE> — the name of the firmware image file, i.e. your actual firmware binary, the star of the show ⭐
• -s <flag>, --select=<flag> — the flag telling it what to update. it has the following values, periodt:
  • OOB — this updates the OOB and main firmware\n"
  • EEP — this updates the eeprom and main firmware\n"
  • ALL — this updates the eeprom, OOB, and main firmware"

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👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

these options are defined up at the top-level nvme command, and they're available to this subcommand too. they're the group-chat-level settings, iykyk ✨

• --dry-run — print the command that would be executed, but do not actually execute it. a little peek, no commitment 🙈
• --no-ioctl-probing — disables probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
• --no-retries — disables the retry logic on transient errors.
• -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — sets the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary`. only one output format may be used at a time, so pick one and commit bestie 💅
• --output-format-version=<version> — selects the output format version. version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (the default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. other versions are rejected 🚫
• --quiet — suppresses informational messages. errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level.
• --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — sets libnvme library options for this invocation. supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir.
• --timeout=<ms> — sets the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff). the way that never times out 😭
• -v, --verbose — increases the level of detail in the output. may be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity. go off, stack them 👑

these options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). a command-line flag always overrides the file — CLI stays the main character 🌟

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

• update OOB and main firmware:

# nvme micron selective-download /dev/nvme0 --fw=firmware_bin --select=OOB
# nvme micron selective-download /dev/nvme0 -f firmware_bin -s OOB

• update OOB and main firmware:

# nvme micron selective-download /dev/nvme0 --fw=firmware_bin --select=EEP
# nvme micron selective-download /dev/nvme0 -f firmware_bin --s EEP

• update eeprom, OOB and main firmware:

# nvme micron selective-download /dev/nvme0 --fw=firmware_bin --select=ALL
# nvme micron selective-download /dev/nvme0 -f firmware_bin --s ALL

(yes, those --s lines are exactly how they're written here — copying them character for character, no editing, no "fixing" 🧚)

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💜 NVME 💜

part of the nvme-user suite 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 sign-off time: this one's from NVMe, dated 10/30/2026 — go forth, select your firmware, power cycle, slay ✨💅🦋