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Ranger72

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« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2008, 01:50:00 PM »
QUOTE(madchemist2227 @ Jul 13 2008, 07:46 PM) View Post

How does my post not help him?  I told him Lite-On drives are used for burning and for playing backups get a TS or Hitachi which are hackable.  How is that not advice?  I can't help if you didn't like the advice I gave him thats a personal thing.



And since we now know he does not have a LiteOn drive it comes down to him being worried about Live.
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MickRick

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« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2008, 02:19:00 PM »
QUOTE(madchemist2227 @ Jul 13 2008, 07:46 PM) View Post

How does my post not help him?  I told him Lite-On drives are used for burning and for playing backups get a TS or Hitachi which are hackable.  How is that not advice?  I can't help if you didn't like the advice I gave him thats a personal thing.


Obviously you are not aware of the new Xbox 360 drive made by LiteOn. This drive has a write-only firmware chip and the drive key cannot be extracted from it. It can, however be written to. So, theoretically at least, it can be hacked. But without the original key, this isn't much good.

The drives you refer to are pc drives
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madchemist2227

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« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2008, 07:46:00 PM »
Oh yeah I forgot about extracting the key.  So I guess a new drive wouldn't help after all!

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This drive has a write-only firmware chip and the drive key cannot be extracted from it


If the chip is write only then how does the drive even run if it cannot read instructions from the firmware?
The chip can still be read just probably not from the drive.  You would probably have to remove the chip and either use a programmer/reader or build your own device (there are plenty of schematics out there) to dump/flash the chip.  It may be way more difficult but I garuntee you you can still get the firmware if you really weanted to.
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scuba156

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« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2008, 09:00:00 PM »
QUOTE(madchemist2227 @ Jul 14 2008, 12:22 PM) View Post

Oh yeah I forgot about extracting the key.  So I guess a new drive wouldn't help after all!
If the chip is write only then how does the drive even run if it cannot read instructions from the firmware?
The chip can still be read just probably not from the drive.  You would probably have to remove the chip and either use a programmer/reader or build your own device (there are plenty of schematics out there) to dump/flash the chip.  It may be way more difficult but I garuntee you you can still get the firmware if you really weanted to.

i assume he meant read-only.

i can garuntee you that you CANT get the firmware out of it. the firmware is instructed/designed to never leave the TSOP and actually does not have the correct pins for the firmware to leave it so its physically impossible. please keep this talk in the thread mentioned above
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« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2008, 08:50:00 AM »
QUOTE(scuba156 @ Jul 14 2008, 04:36 AM) View Post

i assume he meant read-only.

i can garuntee you that you CANT get the firmware out of it. the firmware is instructed/designed to never leave the TSOP and actually does not have the correct pins for the firmware to leave it so its physically impossible. please keep this talk in the thread mentioned above


dont you feel silly saying that, tut tut,
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