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Originally Posted by arnezami
This is all assuming this patch can be made practical for everybody: Geremia desoldered his flash-chip to read his flash. Only after desoldering, reading and then soldering it back could he flash his drive (using software only). So we still have to find a way to read the entire flash using software only  . |
well, the patched firmware it's already for everybody drive, because only main firmware and bootloader will be flashed, and it's the same for all drives.
I got a flash dump from another drive, and i saw that unique data is at flash regions that are filled with FF in the buffalo SD-H802A fw upgrade.
I blanked with FF my unique data area, like the buffalo fw upgrade, flashed, and all went ok, i can still play hd-dvd.
Also looking at fw flashing code inside the drive bootloader makes me think that unique data area are skipped during flash, but since i didn't already readed back my flash after all tests i made, i can not be sure 100% that unique data is still the same.