Updating the HGST HDD & SSD firmware
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I have 6 HGST HUSMM141CLAR1600 with C342 firmware and the speed is limited to 6 Gb/s, but the controller is 12 Gb/s. My server is HP DL380G9.
Is it possible to change the speed with another firmware?
Is it possible to change the speed with another firmware?
I picked up a SATA WD HC 530
WUH721414ALE6L0
31 JAN 2020
P/N 0F31175
Firmware T030 on label and on disk (Have seen T130)
Can I update it to LDGAW2G2 at He14 R2G2 SATA 4kn&512e OEM-AP via KB28738 - Vela and HE14 Software Download where it currently sits first in the "He14(DC HC530)" list. Removing the LDGA leaves W2G2 and I figure W is higher than T in my T030
If not what should I do? 2020 was long time ago
Btw in case it helps understand what GA vs GN might mean, I noticed all the SAS firmwares on that download page are GN and SATA are GA.
Edit: some googling makes me think it might be a Huawei brand and maybe they don't put their own label on and I have found firmwares possibly available here.
WUH721414ALE6L0
31 JAN 2020
P/N 0F31175
Firmware T030 on label and on disk (Have seen T130)
Can I update it to LDGAW2G2 at He14 R2G2 SATA 4kn&512e OEM-AP via KB28738 - Vela and HE14 Software Download where it currently sits first in the "He14(DC HC530)" list. Removing the LDGA leaves W2G2 and I figure W is higher than T in my T030
If not what should I do? 2020 was long time ago Btw in case it helps understand what GA vs GN might mean, I noticed all the SAS firmwares on that download page are GN and SATA are GA.
Edit: some googling makes me think it might be a Huawei brand and maybe they don't put their own label on and I have found firmwares possibly available here.
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LDHWT450 is for your drive here https://files.hddguru.com/download/Firmware updates/Hitachi/Huawei Branding/
Amazing thanks it worked!
Code:
(hugo) s
Manuf. Model Serial Interface Capacity Type Firmware
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1) HGST WUH721414ALE6L0 ******** SATA 14000 GB HDD T030
(hugo) u -m WUH721414ALE6L0 -f LDHWT450.bin
Attempting to update Firmware on 1 Devices...
Update Successful on device: X1G08JRL
Update successful on 1 devices.
Power cycling of updated devices is recommended.
(hugo) s
Manuf. Model Serial Interface Capacity Type Firmware
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1) HGST WUH721414ALE6L0 ******** SATA 14000 GB HDD T450Hi everyone,
I have four HGST HUS726060AL4210 SAS drives currently locked with firmware version A519, which disables standard SCSI commands like FORMAT UNIT, START STOP UNIT, and others. I’ve seen multiple reports confirming that firmware versions A907 or ADD5 can restore full functionality on these drives.
Just to clarify — I’m not looking for the usual ~1.9MB sg_write_buffer microcode update. I’m specifically searching for a full raw SPI dump (.bin), either 16MB or 32MB depending on the flash chip size, ideally extracted directly via CH341A or similar (from the SOIC8 chip).
If anyone has a working SPI dump of A907 (or ADD5) from a HUS726060AL4210, or knows where to find one, I’d be incredibly grateful. Just trying to revive these drives for homelab and personal storage use.
Thanks again — and sorry if my earlier message was unclear!
I have four HGST HUS726060AL4210 SAS drives currently locked with firmware version A519, which disables standard SCSI commands like FORMAT UNIT, START STOP UNIT, and others. I’ve seen multiple reports confirming that firmware versions A907 or ADD5 can restore full functionality on these drives.
Just to clarify — I’m not looking for the usual ~1.9MB sg_write_buffer microcode update. I’m specifically searching for a full raw SPI dump (.bin), either 16MB or 32MB depending on the flash chip size, ideally extracted directly via CH341A or similar (from the SOIC8 chip).
If anyone has a working SPI dump of A907 (or ADD5) from a HUS726060AL4210, or knows where to find one, I’d be incredibly grateful. Just trying to revive these drives for homelab and personal storage use.
Thanks again — and sorry if my earlier message was unclear!
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I can tell you its not in Drive_Firmware_1.13.tgz. I have a copy, and it's not there. I extracted it and looked.
I'm looking for a full SPI dump (.bin) of a Hitachi HGST HUS726060AL4210 drive with A907 firmware. Not the usual sg_write_buffer microcode update (~1.9MB), but the full 16MB or 32MB raw image dumped from the SOIC8 SPI chip using a CH341A or similar. My current drive is locked (A519), and I’m planning to flash it directly via clip. If anyone has a raw SPI binary from a working A907 drive, I’d be super grateful!" I realized my previous message wasn’t very clear — sorry about that. I’m updating it here to avoid confusion.
I get your point about the firmware being split between the ROM and the platters, and that some parts are unique per drive.
Just to clarify, I’m not planning to overwrite the entire ROM blindly. The idea would be to keep the drive-specific adaptives from my original SPI dump, and only replace the microcode section with a known-good version like A907, to restore normal functionality on these A519-locked drives.
Of course, I’ll do this very carefully — full backups and step-by-step diffing included. It’s more of a personal homelab project than anything else.
Hi, I have 8 Husmr3240ass204 (400GB stated capacity on the label). They came out of an EMC array. Converted off of the 520B sectors to 4096, so that's all well and fine. The drives only show up as 200GB drives.
Has anyone figured out how to restore the full capacity?
Has anyone figured out how to restore the full capacity?
not saying this thread describes your problem - but you might look here
typically you'll want to post smart from the drive (yeah SAS, not gonna report everything, its probably enough and a start) as well as the exact commands and sequence you used.
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsscsi -g
[0:0:0:0] disk HITACHI H4SMR324 CLAR200 S128 /dev/sda /dev/sg0
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo sg_format --format --size=4096 /dev/sg0
HITACHI H4SMR324 CLAR200 S128 peripheral_type: disk [0x0]
<< supports protection information>>
Unit serial number: 73V0N---
LU name: 5000cca09e013---
Mode Sense (block descriptor) data, prior to changes:
Number of blocks=384710861 [0x16ee38cd]
Block size=520 [0x208]
.............
Format unit has started
FORMAT UNIT Complete
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmesg -w | grep -E "(mpt|scsi| sd )"
## Before unplugging the drive
[ 9.449558] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 9.449722] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unsupported sector size 520.
[ 9.449735] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
[ 9.449739] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4160-byte physical blocks
[ 9.449938] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 9.449942] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: b7 00 10 08
[ 9.450183] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA
[ 9.450681] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Preferred minimum I/O size 4096 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (4160 bytes)
## After replugging the drive back in
[ 1831.794207] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 1831.794774] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
[ 1835.928638] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] 48840246 4096-byte logical blocks: (200 GB/186 GiB)
[ 1835.928873] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1835.928879] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Mode Sense: b7 00 10 08
[ 1835.929209] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA
[ 1835.929956] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Preferred minimum I/O size 4096 bytes
[ 1835.945483] sd 0:0:1:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2323.034537] sd 0:0:1:0: device_block, handle(0x0009)
[ 2325.033122] sd 0:0:1:0: device_unblock and setting to running, handle(0x0009)