[Cryptography] My ignorance and drive firmware hacking

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> It doesn't necessarily need to be rewritable to deal with a firmware 
> corruption issue, it could just be a case of swapping out the controller 
> board with one from another drive of the same model, which used to be a 
> standard means of dealing with failed controller issues.

I am having flash-backs of QIC-150 drives, which we then called QIC-75 
drives, because that was all that they ever did, if they saw some sort of 
a leader on the tape...

The supplier acknowledged that the firmware was busted, but I never did 
get a replacement EPROM from them.

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