From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Bryant Subject: Re: firmware help Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:29:37 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4141D671.20008@optonline.net> References: <311601c9040910092061681de5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pegasus.allegientsystems.com ([208.251.178.236]:50191 "EHLO pegasus.lawaudit.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267527AbUIJQ3i (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:29:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <311601c9040910092061681de5@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Mudama Cc: jklaas , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Eric Mudama wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:51:42 -0400 (EDT), jklaas wrote: > >>>From everything I've read about firmware on SCSI drives, it appears to be >>impossible to extract the firmware from a drive. I was hoping that there >>was some sort of SCSI programming judo to make this drive divulge this >>information. Would I be better off trying to extract the firmware >>directly from the flash chip somehow? >> >>I was hoping to find some firmware for some EMC Symmetrix/Seagate drives. >>These are Elite 47 drives labelled with Seagate model #ST446452W, and >>a "non-Seagate" part number 9K7001-021. These drives were apparently only >>ever sold to EMC and were designed by Seagate for EMC specifically. (Is >>this true of all the Elite drives?) >> >>Seagate said "The part number you provided for us indicates that the drive >>is OEM. Please contact your vendor to receive the proper firmware >>upgrade." Unfortunately, EMCs support site is impenetrable. >> >>Thank you for your help. > > > I'm sure there is hidden judo to extract that data, but those who know > it aren't allowed to reveal it because we either 1) work for a drive > manufacturer and would get fired or 2) work for a data recovery > company and make our living with that judo. > > What exactly do you hope to accomplish with a binary firmware image > anyway? The firmware is liable to be a binary image from a custom > architecture... which'd be a LOT of work to try to decode into > something meaningful... People have done it. There's hacked firmware floating around for NEC DVD burners... > > --eric > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >