Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 05:12, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Ok, here's status: Nicolas Planel found the origin of the > > problem. It's the "packet writing support" for cd/dvd burners > > that was introduced on 15th of August > > I'm astounded that anyone would ship a drive that can be fried in > software.
That's also much of a bad luck, the firmware was probably designed at a time the FLUSH stuff was not even in the ATAPI specifications - and since every manufacturer more or less needs to use an extension of specs to do firmware updates.. What surprises me is that they don't rely on a "magic" at the beginning and end of the new firmware sequence, or a md5sum-alike of the firmware sequence. If it's only known to the hardware it would be an efficient protection against viruses that would exploit it to "destroy" the drive. > What's the solution? Is a fried drive truly fried, or can they be > re-flashed or something to resuscitate it? We're in technical contacts with LG in korea now. They're nice. They've talked about a way to "recover" de firmware but they said it's not easy for typical customer. We'll see what is it exactly. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
