In his case he actually lifted the clock pin on the flash chip. Furthermore, his results and methods suggest that anyone who has experienced the “Initio default controller” problem after a failed firmware update should be able to recover by simply reflashing the drive. The OP in the abovementioned thread has done some excellent detective work that should illuminate the structure of these SmartWare drives. The VCD and Smartware data are stored in a reserved section of the platters. The firmware in the above case is written to the flash chip that is attached to the Initio bridge IC. Interestingly, an owner of an HP SimpleDrive, model sd320a, has been able to flash its firmware so that it now identifies as a WD Passport: This IC contains the drive’s unique “adaptive” data. In this case you will need to transfer the serial flash IC at location U12. The difficulty arises when the bridge IC is integrated onto the drive’s own PCB. Therefore, I expect that any external WD product where the bridge IC is on a separate board will be similarly recoverable. I’ve been informed by a data recovery professional that you can simply swap the USB-SATA bridge PCB in WD’s 500GB My Book Essential,P/N WDBAAF5000EBK.
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