PAKComputers wrote:
Anyone interested in collaborating on a project to decompile/patch a drives firmware to skip the factory initialization and boot with some reasonable defaults.
To reverse engineer a hard drive down to the initialization level you'll need to be able to read it like a book first. That's prior to any interference in the process.
PAKComputers wrote:
The patched fw could keep changing the adaptives to determine what will work for each head.
Should you succeed, you'll be a pioneer in this area, I haven't heard anyone did this before.
PAKComputers wrote:
I am even open to controlling the drive via JTAG
JTAG doesn't care where it is, it doesn't depend on device type, it's just a tunnel to the processor mind.
JTAG isn't something to intervene in a hard drive operation, but to intervene in a CPU work. And CPU isn't equal to whole device.
Anyway, that's a good ambition. Should it born a specialist of such a high level, I'm for it.