Why would anyone design something to behave like this? If they are trying to sell more drives I think the scheme would backfire. Are all drives like this? Jay Kline wrote: > On October 27, 2:14 pm Chris Frederick <cdf123 at speakeasy.net> wrote: > >>Just curious though, if this flashes the firmware and clears it, >>couldn't you reload the firmware back on? > > > No, since the firmware needs to be usable in order to do the update. If > you kill the firmware, the drive is pretty much useless. Except if you have > the ability to pull the firmware out and reprogram it somehow (like > motherboard bios). -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list