3.56 v1 hard drive bug

a family member of mine had the 3.56 corrupt hard drive error and gave me it to look at to see if i could fix it. i assumed it was a faulty drive (not knowing it was a bad firmware) and took it out and formatted it pc style to check for errors.

obviously that was the wrong things to do lots of peeps have the issue of a semi bricked ps3 which cant install any firware full stop.

apart from arguing with sony about an out of warranty console to send it off for a reflashing is there any devs who have this issue in mind and able to provide a fix?

dunno if 3.66 adresses this issue, but it probably doesnt, the fact that sony has done nothing to sort this issue out, to put it in a nice way, is an effing disgrace.