How does use of a damaged drive affect the firmware?

[ontariotech]

How does use of a damaged drive (e.g. bad heads) affect the firmware?

For example, will using a drive with a damaged head eventually lead to corrupt firmware as well?

[hhddrec]

Is not recomended to use damaged heads, because can damage media and FW.

[ontariotech]

ok thanks hhddrec.

Does anyone else have anything to say on this?

Does firmware get damaged by using a faulty drive?

[mr_spokk]

Yes, it builds up a large defect list and could overflow it to the point that the drive will not start.

[guru]

Main problem comes from the drives inability to write back critical dynamic firmware modules , (If the firmware resides on a surface with damaged head/s)

[hhddrec]

smart words here.