Saving HDD firmware in a file

[colinhunt]

Might any of you fine folks know how I could read & save firmware from a 2.5" SATA HDD? It's a 320GB Hitachi, a Travelstar 5K320-320 5400rpm.

[Guest]

Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?

[colinhunt]

Does it matter?

[Guest]

It matters to me, else I would not have asked.

Since you disdain my simple and polite enquiry, I will return the favor.

[colinhunt]

I don't see why it should matter, but you answered your question already: out of curiosity.

[Guest]

The command set for the drive allows for downloading firmware to the drive only.

[colinhunt]

Oh, poop. Thank you, regardless.

[Ghitulescu]

You can however query for the FW version and try to find it elsewhere (google...).