HGST HUH728080AL5200 bricked with firmware AD05 update

[Spectral]

Hello gurus.
Updated my HGST HUH728080AL5200 from A907 to AD05 (A4GNAD05.zip) firmware. Flashed with seatools.
Now drive show 0 capaticy, have no SMART and fully unusable. Utility show updated FW version but thats all.
HUGO-7.5.1.win64 able to read FW version.
Any idea for recovery steps?

[fzabkar]

Are you able to find your original firmware or something in the A9nn series? Do you have a second HDD with A9nn firmware?

I have extracted the modules from your firmware update package (see attachment). It tells you which components were changed. I know it doesn't help you, but it may help someone else.

https://files.hddguru.com/download/Firmware%20updates/Hitachi/A4GNAD05.zip

Attachments

CPs_A4GNAD05.7z

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[napalm_atx]

Try to use wdckit with --fastformat option, it can return drive original capacity

[Spectral]

fzabkar
Thanks, will try. What SW i should use to dump current FW?
Have no same drive and found no A9 fw to download. Will take eye at ebay, maybe broken drive to sell there.

napalm_atx
All application reported "device not ready", Windows as well. Seatools used for update also see drive, fw rebision, but crashing with any action (test, smart).
SAS controller reported 0 capacity, can see drive model.

[fzabkar]

This script dumps the firmware modules of older HGST SAS models, but I don't know if it works on current models.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

for i in {0..255}
do
   j="$(printf '%02x' $i)"
   sg_raw -r 1M -b /dev/sg1 3c 01 $j 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 > ./modules/0x$j.bin
done

[Spectral]

Sg tools shown device is busy for most of action.

Look like found issue: sanitize going so drive locked until completed. Percent increasing. Will wait an day, very slow.

[Spectral]

Resolved.
Sanitize unlocked drive after complete. Uninterruptable after started, cannot be canceled.
Status\progress shown with sg_requests from SG Utilites.
Thanks for help.

[fzabkar]

Does the sg_raw script work now?

[Spectral]

All i started after works as expected. Did capacity alligner with sg, passed.
I didn't dumped fw because drive found new owner. He rushed me so sent asap.