I'm going to get all the information off my test drive and do some more investigating.
Next I will begin to port existing open source firmware to the S11.
Finally I will go full send and use a flashing tool, or perhaps make my own to keep it FLOSS, to flash the experimental firmware to the drive.
I believe that I have enough information to make it functional. I'm going to need to adapt everything to work in Linux too. If I mess up, then I will learn even more.
If I had to estimate how much is done, I would have to say that I'm approximately 60% ready to flash.
@AmpBenzScientist
Software devels sometimes feel so too. I'd Guess generally scientists could too.
@PawelK I'm a Mathematician and while the statement is true for a large set of people; a Mathematician will have the largest burden. Serendipity can make the difference between nothing and something. If Mandelbrot hadn't pursued a very odd sequence and noticed the reoccurring patterns, his work wouldn't have been seen as more than madness.
@AmpBenzScientist
Ah yeah in that sense very much so. Sliding on edge between delusion crazy idea and brilliant idea. I didn't finish masters in math but in that sense I would make good match at least through lens of eyes of my family. I could drop in one more that Nicola Tesla was viewed as alike a bit for example. Generally bizpips into unicorns are.
I believe that my original goal was to document how the flashing of firmware takes place on harddrives and I'll definitely be doing this with code.
A Mathematician once said that being a Mathematician was similar to bipolar disorder. At times, one feels like a complete idiot and unable to grasp what they are after. Other times, one feels like they have reached a new level of conciousness after a discovery.