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by userbinator 1859 days ago
I found out how to use a vendor-specific command to read the raw data from the buffer of the drive before descrambling and ECC. Look up the "FriiDump" project for some more background information. I then patched the firmware in memory (that took a lot of work...) to cause regular read commands to return the raw data.

(Contrary to some of the other comments in this thread, the drive was actually an LG.)

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Wow! It does sound extremely painful haha. Thanks for sharing, that's pretty useful info.