Hitachi HTS543232L9SA00

[pclab]

Hi

I need this FW.
Does someone have it?
Thanks

[northwind]

I looked but...

[pclab]

I looked but...

Thanks

[northwind]

i think this is quite a common drive. I'm surprised i don't have these resources. Someone will have it for you i'm sure

[pclab]

i think this is quite a common drive. I'm surprised i don't have these resources. Someone will have it for you i'm sure

Actually no. I have searched allot and no one have it.

[pcimage]

Here you go...

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[ethos]

hello folks,

I also have one of these drives, what program should I use to update the firmware ?

many thanks indeed !

[pcimage]

hello folks,

I also have one of these drives, what program should I use to update the firmware ?

many thanks indeed !

What do you mean by "update the firmware"? Why would you want to do that?

Do you mean "repair the firmware?

If yes then you need something like pc3000 UDMA at about $10,000 plus know how to use it.

What's the actual problem with your drive?

[ethos]

Yes, repair the firmware I would imagine.

I have this Hitachi HTS543232L9SA00 drive and it appears to be working in an erratic way, I thought it
could be corrupted firmware. Erratic in that, it was producing arbitrary errors causing blue screens and
in took a longer than expected time (about 24 hours for 100GB or so) to copy across to another device, the data stored on it.

Zero filling the drive with # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[x,y] resulted in non verbose ioctl errors, basically 'quietly' locking that process.

Its just out of warranty and has never had a serious knock or anything, afaik and thus I have a (not strong) hunch that it could have
been caused by some sort of malware.

I did a quick search and found this thread, seeing that someone else requested firmware for such a device,
one assumes its possible to re-write or update the firmware (as with many other devices).

So, there is, to your knowledge no program that facilitates firmware repair without some sort of hardware implementation ?

many thanks for your time.

[pclab]

If you are trying to repair the drive, forget it. With the money you need to buy the tools, you can buy dozens of drives.

[pcimage]

Not a firmware issue, the drive is dying by the sound of it. Bad sectors.

Just buy a new one.

[fzabkar]

Try a comprehensive SMART diagnostic. Look for reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors.

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux):
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HDDScan for Windows:
http://hddscan.com/

See this article for SMART info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.