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The need of ARM understanding in WD drives.

September 26th, 2016, 13:01

Hello my friends. I would love to discuss the possibility of understanding the nature of ARM programming when it comes to Marvel series controllers and data recovery. What added benefits one can have by knowing ARM in the field of DR.


rgds
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Re: The need of ARM understanding in WD drives.

October 10th, 2016, 17:49

I don't know about WD/Marvel, but learning ARM has been helpful for analyzing Samsung SSD firmware to me:
http://www2.futureware.at/~philipp/ssd/ ... Manual.pdf
If you want to learn ARM, perhaps it helps you to take a look at the ARM code and my comments in the traces I collected:
http://www2.futureware.at/cgi-bin/ssd/logs

Re: The need of ARM understanding in WD drives.

October 11th, 2016, 1:08

sourcerer wrote:I don't know about WD/Marvel, but learning ARM has been helpful for analyzing Samsung SSD firmware to me:
http://www2.futureware.at/~philipp/ssd/ ... Manual.pdf
If you want to learn ARM, perhaps it helps you to take a look at the ARM code and my comments in the traces I collected:
http://www2.futureware.at/cgi-bin/ssd/logs



Hi,
Very Very Interesting Research

Re: The need of ARM understanding in WD drives.

March 3rd, 2017, 4:21

very interesting research, i am reversing the wd marvell rom too.

Re: The need of ARM understanding in WD drives.

April 30th, 2018, 10:58

So good to see all this. So far I am starting off with ARM CORTEX M4 and taking small steps.
Right now I am trying to build a DSP based OPAMP analyser as a DIY project on CYPRESS FM4.
This is solely to do Transfer function analysis etc for various 2 port networks that I design and after establishing the Impulse Response, trying to digitize it aswell.

So far going forward, then will go reverse :D

rgds
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