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Avro_Arrow

Post subject: Editing Firmware

Posted: March 9th, 2008, 16:49

Joined: March 9th, 2008, 16:13
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Here is the question:
Is it possible to edit the firmware to report a different hard drive model number?
Can you read/edit/write the firmware?
The drive is a Maxtor 6L200P0.

The reason I want to do this is to fool a Personal Video Recorder into
thinking this is one of it's supported drives.
What I mean is I want the Hard Drive to report that it is a Maxtor 4R120L0 instead of a 6L200P0.

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pepe

Post subject: Re: Editing Firmware

Posted: March 10th, 2008, 2:22

Joined: October 3rd, 2005, 0:40
Posts: 4335
Location: Hungary

Hi,

Yes, it is possible, but specials tools are needed to access FW.

pepe

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thatdellguy

Post subject: Re: Editing Firmware

Posted: March 10th, 2008, 2:30

Joined: August 19th, 2007, 17:30
Posts: 1899
Location: In your hard drive.

Where are you located?

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Avro_Arrow

Post subject: Re: Editing Firmware

Posted: March 10th, 2008, 9:12

Joined: March 9th, 2008, 16:13
Posts: 3

pepe wrote:

Hi,

Yes, it is possible, but specials tools are needed to access FW.

pepe

Hardware or software tools?
Too bad I didn't take the job at the data recovery company...

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Avro_Arrow

Post subject: Re: Editing Firmware

Posted: March 10th, 2008, 9:13

Joined: March 9th, 2008, 16:13
Posts: 3

thatdellguy wrote:

Where are you located?

Toronto

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