lite on

[rids]

on the risk of getting booed but i did a search about liteon drives but cant find out can the key be read from the drive i no u cant flahs it but can it be read and then spofed on to a sammy (or such)
or can you obtain the key from the mainboard (i don thing it possbul but as thay need to mate the main bored must have some idea what the key is)

again im sorry for another liteon post

[evilsatan]

No, if the key could be extracted then there would be a solution for the Lite-On drives. You cannot access the key at all at the moment, it is a hardware limitation. Seen some posts by teccies who think it will be doable sometime though.

[Mario87]

Yup, cant be done, main reason being that with all other drives, the FW was stored on a different chip from the drive controller, so when data was being transferred between the two it was possible to read the key from the I/O lines.

Where as now the drive controller and FW are all on one single chip, so no FW code ever leaves the chip which makes it VERY, VERY hard, if not impossible to make a FW hack for it.

Doesn't mean they cant make a chip for it and patch data on the fly though!

[rids]

Yup, cant be done, main reason being that with all other drives, the FW was stored on a different chip from the drive controller, so when data was being transferred between the two it was possible to read the key from the I/O lines.

Where as now the drive controller and FW are all on one single chip, so no FW code ever leaves the chip which makes it VERY, VERY hard, if not impossible to make a FW hack for it.

Doesn't mean they cant make a chip for it and patch data on the fly though!

thank you very much now it makes more sence to me i am very gratefull for the replys
i try to learn but not all info is easy to come by and well i dont have much of an education to be fare and am roofer by trade so any real info is grate

[Mario87]

No worries mate! Thats what the forums are for....helping each other out.