Well, answering for myself, either A6DA nor A6BA firmware from IBM will hurt the hard disk IF the drive is HPA absent. I tried the FTool's change capacity function after I upgraded to A6DA, and still succeeded: the SET MAX command is still working.
So, one should definitely want to delete the HPA area first before using IBM's firmware update! It can be restored back after the upgrade.
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