From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Mudama Subject: Re: firmware help Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:32:50 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <311601c9040910093247b2d12d@mail.gmail.com> References: <311601c9040910092061681de5@mail.gmail.com> <4141D671.20008@optonline.net> Reply-To: Eric Mudama Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.194]:18810 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267602AbUIJQc4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:32:56 -0400 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so238348rnl for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:32:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4141D671.20008@optonline.net> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Nathan Bryant Cc: jklaas , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:29:37 -0400, Nathan Bryant wrote: > People have done it. There's hacked firmware floating around for NEC DVD > burners... Oh, I'm sure, but the disassembly task is MUCH simpler when the CD/DVD vendor is using one of the ultra-high volume controller chips that anyone can buy a spec to. I would think that without inside information, figuring out what CPU core (or cores) are inside an ASIC on a hard disk drive is more difficult. --eric