Recognizing SMR HDDs

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 26 May 2016 10:10:14 -0400
"Kenneth D. Merry" <ken at FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 16:00:41 +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > protocol              ATA/ATAPI-9 SATA 3.x
> > device model          ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z
> > firmware revision     AR13  
> 
> The firmware is old, the current version is AR17.  You should really ask
> Seagate for updated firmware.
> 

The Download Finder on the Seagate site claims that there is no newer
firmware.

So the question is, how to get the latest AR17 version from Seagate
as a simple consumer?

-- 
Gary Jennejohn