smartctl reports drive not in smartctl database (HITACHI HUA721075KLA330)

[John Littleton]

SYMPTOM: smartctl incorrectly reports drive not is smartctl database

  { "Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000", // tested with
    // HUA721010KLA330      44X2459 42C0424IBM/GKAOAB4A
    "(**Hitachi** )?HUA7210(50|75|10)KLA330.*",
    "", "", ""
  },

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     HITACHI HUA721075KLA330
Serial Number:    P8H91GWF
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 215d23466
Firmware Version: GK8OA90A
User Capacity:    750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
**Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]**
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1
Local Time is:    Sun Oct 27 08:50:18 2019 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

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SYMPTOM: smartctl now correctly reports drive in smartctl database
CAUSE: letter case mismatch on drive "Device Model:"

  { "Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000", // tested with
    // HUA721010KLA330      44X2459 42C0424IBM/GKAOAB4A
    "(**HITACHI** )?HUA7210(50|75|10)KLA330.*",
    "", "", ""
  },

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000
Device Model:     HITACHI HUA721075KLA330
Serial Number:    P8H91GWF
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 215d23466
Firmware Version: GK8OA90A
User Capacity:    750,156,374,016 bytes [750 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
**Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]**
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1
Local Time is:    Sun Oct 27 07:47:20 2019 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

[Christian Franke]

There exist drives with IDENTIFY string Hitachi HUA721075KLA330 (see ticket #680 for example), so it is required to match both.

Please provide output of smartctl -x ... as an attachment to this ticket.

[John Littleton]

smartctl -x output for HITACHI HUA721075KLA330

[Christian Franke]

r4997, r4998.