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In Reply to: RE: reformatting is not sufficient to completely wipe the drive posted by Ugly on June 25, 2014 at 22:08:12:
There appear to be tools available that update hard drive firmware. They appear to be specific to individual products. That being the case, there should be a way to do this via an operating system, assuming one has sufficient access privileges, either legitimately or otherwise. (I have flashed firmware for lots of other devices, but don't recall doing so for a hard drive, although I may have.)
It is possible that the firmware loaders require firmware images to be digitally signed. I would expect the flash memories to have protected sectors containing boot code. If so, it could be hard to "jailbreak" the firmware. However, if a manufacturer was in cahoots with the provider of malware it would be possible to bypass this protection.
Tony Lauck
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