alps
7th November 2016, 00:35
Hi everybody!
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to hack the firmware of a burner in order to enable DVD overburning.
Particularly, I'm referring to the slim IDE DVD writers coming with laptops about 10 years ago (Pioneer DVR-K17A, in my case, but I could get other second-hand models of other brands, if necessary). I've known that the majority of burners doesn't support DVD overburning. But this operation just concerns the writing beyond a certain number of sectors.
So, if the firmware contains a limit of sectors beyond which the burner cannot write, what about finding and raising that limit in the firmware file?
Is that possible, theoretically?
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to hack the firmware of a burner in order to enable DVD overburning.
Particularly, I'm referring to the slim IDE DVD writers coming with laptops about 10 years ago (Pioneer DVR-K17A, in my case, but I could get other second-hand models of other brands, if necessary). I've known that the majority of burners doesn't support DVD overburning. But this operation just concerns the writing beyond a certain number of sectors.
So, if the firmware contains a limit of sectors beyond which the burner cannot write, what about finding and raising that limit in the firmware file?
Is that possible, theoretically?