Ebay user upgrading DMS drives!?

[sulaco]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3293&item=5778681680

[judb]

hmmm.. interesting.  I guess that person is copying one fujitsu drive settings like Terry Kenedy was doing.. or its an expensive hoax

[ws]

Hoax or not, it's expensive. An 80Gb drive is around £75 in the UK so this joker wants £105 for doing the upgrade!

[judb]

if this is someone in the phatnoise comunity thats found out how to do it and isnt sharing, thats gay, whats worse is they are trying to gain from the situation on their own and thats even more lame.

[para]

Full ACK, that's the difference between hacking and cracking...

[bushing]

I doubt this is someone from the board.

This is probably just the drive cloning method -- taking a real 80 gig Phatnoise drive, buying a similar drive (note how it's specifically a Fujitsu drive ?) and using some tool to rewrite the serial number / drive ID info.

Some work with Google turns up a lot of crap, but it seems that in the end, that info is stored on a (less likely) EEPROM on the drive controller board or (more likely) on a reserved part of the drive, along with bad sector maps, etc.

The people who know about this stuff don't like to talk about it-- check this out for a great example: http://www.eio.com/public/harddrv/0779.html

It looks like a tool called PC 3000 could do it ... anyway ... back to other approaches.

Ben

[todd1010]

Its going to cost around 300 US dollars to get it done. So why woudn't you just spend the extra 50 bucks and get the real DMS. So I guess its really not worth it here in America.

[cheese]

Each disk drive manufactuer has a tool to edit the serial number and other drive data stored on their platters below cylinder zero.  Beckytaylor obviously has Fujitsu's tool which allows her to clone their drives.

[bushing]

Each disk drive manufactuer has a tool to edit the serial number and other drive data stored on their platters below cylinder zero.  Beckytaylor obviously has Fujitsu's tool which allows her to clone their drives.

... That is a true statement.

-b

[daaron]

Surely it's not that hard to change a hard drive's serial number:

http://www.codeproject.com/system/change_drive_sn.asp

(Note: The eight digit number is the hex version of the purely numeric SN shown elsewhere.)

Anyone tried this?

[Terry_Kennedy]

Surely it's not that hard to change a hard drive's serial number:

http://www.codeproject.com/system/change_drive_sn.asp

(Note: The eight digit number is the hex version of the purely numeric SN shown elsewhere.)

Anyone tried this?

That is the Windows volume serial number. The PhatBox depends on the drive's manufacturing serial number, which is entirely different. Also, just changing the serial number will only let you use a model of drive PhatNoise already offers - my interest is in drives larger than the ones PhatNoise offers.