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corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 27th, 2018, 6:17

Hi,

is this just corrupted ROM, Happened, or its sabotaged deliberately ?
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ROM.zip
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Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 27th, 2018, 6:35

Why do you think is corrupted?
It doesn't seem to be corrupted...

W3728AFC rom.png

Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 27th, 2018, 6:42

This should be KahunaV family drive, so it's SSHD drive.
What are the symptoms ?
It might be corrupted NAND.

Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 27th, 2018, 7:03

michael chiklis wrote:Why do you think is corrupted?

see from 0xD0000 up to 0xD975B

Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 27th, 2018, 16:51

It looks deliberate to me. At least the adaptives appear to be untouched, but who knows?

Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 28th, 2018, 4:27

Does the drive spin up ?
Do you hear any noise ?
Did you check if ROM chip is original or if something different?

Check this old post, it was a deliberate sabotage!
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29113

Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 28th, 2018, 15:49

fzabkar wrote:It looks deliberate to me.

thanks
fzabkar wrote:At least the adaptives appear to be untouched, but who knows?

here you've one to compare
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ROM2Compare.zip
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Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 28th, 2018, 17:59

jermy wrote:here you've one to compare

Patch the patient ROM and try it?

Re: corrupted ROM or sabotage ?

July 30th, 2018, 4:22

spammer
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