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 ... ?

 

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.

 

yeah man i've installed the DELL firmware and i didn't had problems with my HDD ... i shouldn't have done that , I've searched all over the internet and i couldn't find nowhere the 0003SDM1 firmware (the only available older firmware i was able to find was from LENOVO and it was something like 003LVM1 but i wasn't sured about it and they have probably locked it for the LENOVO users

actually i think i saw a program to backup the BIOS firmware so that's why i thought if someone knows how to backup the firmware

i am out of ideas ...