<div dir="ltr">This is kind of like the author of a popular CD burning software back when CDR started showing up. This software was pirated and the author knew it. He posted a new version that if you had a pirated copy, it would fill your had drive full of 1's and 0's. I thought that was going too far like FTDI is by bricking counterfeit chips.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:17 PM, n4lbl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.schulman@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.schulman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)">and it changes.....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)">/. FTDI Removes Driver >From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/10/24/1330252/ftdi-removes-driver-from-windows-update-that-bricked-cloned-chips" target="_blank">http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/10/24/1330252/ftdi-removes-driver-from-windows-update-that-bricked-cloned-chips</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,102)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Aubrey Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">aubrey.c.turner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The common wisdom with regards to USB-to-serial cables seems to be that<br>
one should pick FTDI over Prolific because of all the Prolific<br>
counterfeits in circulation. It seems that this is now becoming a<br>
problem with FTDI, as well.<br>
<br>
Up to now it was not a problem for the end-user. FTDI has decided to<br>
change that with their latest driver, which changes the configuration of<br>
a "fake" FTDI chip so that it is rendered useless (at least without a<br>
bit of fiddling with configuration tools and device IDs on Linux or XP).<br>
<br>
I hadn't realized that FTDI had such an issue with fake chips until I<br>
read this article. Some of the comments point out that the end-user of<br>
the device has no way of knowing whether the chip is genuine or not.<br>
Further, as noted above, many in the radio programming community<br>
purchased devices touted as having FTDI chips in good faith as an effort<br>
to avoid the counterfeits Prolific chips.<br>
<br>
Anyway, if you suddenly have issues with your FTDI USB-to-serial<br>
adapter, take a look and see if the PID has been changed to 0. If so,<br>
then you may have been affected by this new driver.<br>
<br>
Sources:<br>
-<br>
<a href="http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/" target="_blank">http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/</a><br>
- <a href="http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/" target="_blank">http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/</a><br>
- <a href="http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=270175.0" target="_blank">http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=270175.0</a><br>
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