Hello,

Trying to track down firmware for the following hitatchi drives:
HUA721010KLA330
HDE721010SLA330

I've done some extensive research to see if I could track down firmware. I did find some potential firmware for HUA721010KLA330, but it's dell firmware and unsure how that will work, if at all. Just for reference for any looking, I found the firmware from the link below:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en ... erid=kd2f4
I'm willing to give that firmware a chance and just JTAG the PCB later if the firmware bricks the drive.

Any hitatchi firmware version will work for my needs, though I prefer newest firmware if possible. They currently have custom firmware on them which locks the drives to only negotiate 1.5gbps link speeds which my HBA won't support.

Thanks!

A drive's firmware consists of many modules. Only a few of these modules would be targeted by an update. I suspect that in your case you would be looking at the FEAT (features?) module.

Alternatively, there could be a configuration setting in the NVRAM on the PCB.

You might like to investigate "Niagara":
http://files.hddguru.com/download/Software/HGST/

Edit: You might be able to achieve your ends with Hitachi's Feature Tool:
https://www.hgst.com/support/hard-drive-support/downloads/legacy-downloads

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I will check out the suggested took asap.

As far as the feature tool, I can't get it to detect my drive. I dont have hardware old enough for it to detect my drive correctly.

Thanks!

What is your goal ? To set the SATA speed only ???

For IBM based drives including newer HGST ARM you can set the speed of the SATA link using a vendor specific command...

You don't need to flash anything and i trully doubth that flashing firmware would help you out as the update wouldn't change the drive configuration no matter if it's stored on NVRam or FEAT ...

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Hello,

@fzabkar; Checked out Niagara and while I'm pretty sure I found the right section to set link speed, it seems to have failed:

For reference, after opening Niagara (spti driver detected my drives) I ensured only the target device was selected, then went to ATA Tools > Set Features > Vendor Unique Features > 0x54: Set SATA Speed Limit > 0x2

@Spildit; Primary goal is to set link speed to 3Gb/s. I was finally able to get the drive to show up to the feature tool from hgst, but it claimed the drive didn't support changing link speed.

So as a note, this drive came out of a NetApp appliance and was previously flashed with NetApp's custom firmware. What all that changes, I'm unsure, but that's the main reason for trying to find stock firmware. I'm not sure I can set the link speed until I've gotten rid of this garbage NetApp Firmware.

Thanks!

Update! I noticed another feature to "Disable Force Gen 1" for the drive. Executed that successfully on the HDE721010SLA330. I will try it out on some others but that might have been the trick I needed.

I'll also test this on the HUA721010KLA330 when I get home and can swap to the disk.

I'll post some updates later tonight.

Thanks!

Looks like Niagara did use some sort of CDB instead of ATA VSC ...

For the record the ATA VSC that i do use to set SATA speed is not the same as the one you did use.

You used a variant of 8F and i use EF with a completly diferent parameter on error/feature.

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Completely forgot to post an update. Niagara did the trick, same advanced option for both drives to disable force gen 1.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Cool ! Nice that it did work out for you !

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Apologies for resurecting such an old dog! But I'm facing an issue with a HGST HTS541010A9E680 http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37692 while trying to restrict the negotiated speed to SATAII, instead of SATAIII. If you have time, please could you come over to that topic or drop me a PM? Many thanks in advance!