iirc the garbage data from FTDI's driver is the string "NON GENUINE DEVICE FOUND". Instead of returning the real data serial data, it replaces it with bytes fro

iirc the garbage data from FTDI's driver is the string "NON GENUINE DEVICE FOUND". Instead of returning the real data serial data, it replaces it with bytes from that string, read 5 bytes from the chip and you would get "NON G" read another 5 and you would get "ENUIN" and so on.