Archive: https://archive.today/qpWJz From the post: >>Some time last year I was working on an exploit for the Xbox 360 console (which would later turn into the much anticipated softmod) and found myself in need of a way to modify the firmware for a HDD to try and exploit a race condition. This sent me down a rabbit hole of trying to modify the firmware for a few different brands of HDDs and SSDs I had on hand. In this series of blog posts I’ll cover all the work I did including: dumping and analyzing the firmware, live debugging a HDD via JTAG, modifying the drive firmware, and how I used AI to help with analysis and identifying an unknown MCU architecture.