[smartmontools-support]RE: Where to get firmware updates? (Bernd Melchers)

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>   10. Re: Where to get firmware updates? (Bernd Melchers)

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>Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:56:45 +0200
>From: Bernd Melchers <mel...@ZE...>
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>Subject: [smartmontools-support]Where to get firmware updates?
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>I have a Western Digital Disk (Model No WD800JB-00CRA1, Fw. 17.07W17,
>~30 month old) which behaves strange in some ways. Sometimes there
>is an uncorrectable Sector at the same place which never gets
>reallocated by extended tests and never was detected by the
>western digital tools. The last item could lead to a problem
>when i try to replace the disk by warranty.
>
>As there are newer disks with newer firmware, i first want to
>give a better firmware a chance. But this raises a more general
>question: Are there any websites where one can download tools
>for extracting and burning hard disk firmware? And firmware itself?
>There is definitely a need for this, e.g. it is spoken that all disks
>within a raid array should behave best, when all of them have the same
>firmware. Is it necessary that all vendors have there own utilities
>or is there a common interface for updating firmware?
>
> > > hasn't been kicked out of the array. Perhaps I will try a firmware
> > > update on the Samsung SP1604N disk.
> >
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>mit freundlichen Grüßen
>Bernd Melchers

no, u cann't upgrade the firmware of your hdd. unless u got SCSI hdd. no any 
hdd factory will offer you firmware....