Seagate ST9500420AS firmare question

i have updated to the latest 5sdm1 firmware but i can feel my firmware louder now ... worser than before (i didn't had the clicking problems)

i want to ask is there a chance that i can revert to the original firmware which was 3sdm1(where can i find it) ?

or is there a way someone who didn't flashed his ST9500420AS who can make a backup of the firmware or something ... ?

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Originally Posted by mite_jan i want to ask is there a chance that i can revert to the original firmware which was 3sdm1(where can i find it) ? or is there a way someone who didn't flashed his ST9500420AS who can make a backup of the firmware or something ... ?

Unless you can find a Dell update with the older firmware (I assume you installed the update from the Dell site), I think you're stuck.



There isn't a "read firmware" command that will send the firmware from the drive back to you. Only the "write firmware" command (to update the drive) exists. This is so OEM customers (like Sun, for example) with custom firmware can prevent people from reading the firmware from their overpriced custom drive and installing it on a generic drive.



Even if an older firmware is available for download, make sure you have all of your data backed up - while firmware updates generally preserve your data, a downgrade may not. If any control structures were updated when the new version was installed, the older version won't understand the newer format.