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Grazie mille to jaclaz for the ISO file! I used it successfully to update the firmware on my ST31000333AS hdd. None of the backup files stored on the disk were harmed, either. Hopefully, the drive won't die from some other cause anytime soon. Thanks again!

My hero!! Thank you so much for this! I will try it after the holiday.

Well, what do you know? I have found what I believe to be the proper LOD file to upgrade my drive firmware at HDDGuru. Now to try and figure out the command to force the update.

Hello all, Glad you are still talking about the Seagate problem but also sorry that we have to. I have a Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000333AS with firmware SD35, P/N 9FZ136-568. It has gone AWOL with the BSY bug twice (out of warranty, of course) and been resurrected both times with the USB serial cable and HyperTerminal, the second time just two weeks ago. I tried to update the firmware to SD1A and SD1B using both the exe and the ISO but failed. I have since found that I need the Brinks-3D6H-SD3B firmware to flash my drive but haven't found it. Does anyone here know where I could get it? Thanks!