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As a teenager, I helped a friend revive a Seagate drive after it bricked due to faulty firmware. If I recall correctly, my friend had actually installed some firmware updates for the drive, but had not installed one recently enough to avoid the problem. We had to run wires to contacts on the board to allow us to run commands in a terminal (in Windows) on the only machine we could find with a serial port. When it worked, we felt like hackers from a movie!