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    Hitachi Harddisks Thread (5K3000, 7K3000, 7K2000)

    They are not Deskstars, they're all Ultrastars as evidenced by the stickers on the drives and the SMART info (each disk reports itself as a HUA722020ALA330). I have five, four of which are older and have this mysterious firmware NA00. The fifth is newer and came with firmware 3EA, which I was...
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    Hitachi Harddisks Thread (5K3000, 7K3000, 7K2000)

    Yes, I'm doing the procedure correctly, but the utility cannot upgrade this firmware revision for some reason.
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    Hitachi Harddisks Thread (5K3000, 7K3000, 7K2000)

    Some of my older Hitachi Ultrastar HUA722020ALA330 2TB disks have firmware revision JKAONA00. I haven't seen this A00 revision mentioned here in this thread; and trying to upgrade to a more recent revision such as 3EA or 3MA using the DOS utility fails. Hitachi support didn't know what to do...