Poor CD-ROM design?
Poor CD-ROM design?
Posted Oct 31, 2003 23:45 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)In reply to: Mandrake Linux 9.2 and self-destructing CD-ROM drives by hentosh
Parent article: Mandrake Linux 9.2 and self-destructing CD-ROM drives
What gets me about this is how happily the drive overwrites its firmware with trash. If I were designing a "flash firmware" command, I think I'd stick some kind of signature and/or CRC in there to make absolutely sure that the data being supplied was intended as firmware for the device. Think of all the ways you could intentionally send a "flash firmware" command, but unintentionally send the wrong data.