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skeeter

Post subject: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 2nd, 2019, 10:15

Joined: May 29th, 2019, 22:00
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Location: United States

A few years back I used some python code to dump the bootloader ROM from a seagate F3 drive using the AP and RD commands within the bootloader

It was referenced in a slide presentation by Jonas Zaddach (starting on slide 18) and written by Travis Goodspeed
http://s3.eurecom.fr/~zaddach/docs/Recon14_HDD.pdf

I can't find this script.
Can anyone help ?

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 2nd, 2019, 22:39

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 17091
Location: Australia

If you can't find the Python code, it shouldn't be too difficult to write a ZOC script to do this. You could modify the ZOC script I wrote for dumping WD's bootloader.

AIUI, the command sequence is …

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E123

Post subject: Re: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 3rd, 2019, 7:02

Joined: September 26th, 2016, 4:26
Posts: 125
Location: Russia

fzabkar,

Quote:

AP 0<CR>

-bootloader here. BootROM sits at 0x100000.)))
skeeter, What version BootROM you need? I've some dumps.

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 3rd, 2019, 7:37

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 17091
Location: Australia

E123 wrote:

fzabkar,

Quote:

AP 0<CR>

-bootloader here. BootROM sits at 0x100000.)))

I found this after I posted:

http://s3.eurecom.fr/~zaddach/docs/POC13_zaddach.pdf

Code:

Memory Range             Type

0x00000000 – 0x00008000  Code SRAM
0x00100000 – 0x00120000  ROM
0x00200000 – 0x00400000  Code DRAM
0x04000000 – 0x04004000  Data SRAM
0x40000000 – 0x50000000  IO
0x60000000 – 0x70000000  Data DRAM

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 3rd, 2019, 18:47

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 17091
Location: Australia

If you would like to play with WD instead, here is the boot loader from a WD20EADS (uploaded via a ZOC script):

Attachment:

FFFF0000-FFFF2AFF.rar [7.89 KiB]
Downloaded 1162 times

@Severence and I have been able to decompress WD's ROM code (@Severence has compiled a Windows version of LZHUF for this purpose). My ROM parsing tool extracts the various code segments.

Seagate's ROM segments are compressed with a different algorithm ("CPRS").

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skeeter

Post subject: Re: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 6th, 2019, 13:59

Joined: May 29th, 2019, 22:00
Posts: 15
Location: United States

Thanks for all the ideas, but I want to stick with seagate because it will make it much easier later when I get to the actual firmware code (having messages and diagnostics in text throughout....)

The version I have is:

SEA-3 Yeti Boot ROM 2.0 (12/06/2007)
Copyright Seagate 2007

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E123

Post subject: Re: Seagate boot ROM dump

Posted: June 6th, 2019, 14:25

Joined: September 26th, 2016, 4:26
Posts: 125
Location: Russia

skeeter, https://yadi.sk/d/qMVdXFEuy4zUtg

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