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I do not believe there should be any concern. The firmware is loaded directly in to the superdrive, so it should have nothing to do with the logic board.
 
You have nothing to worry about because you are out of Warranty. Apple won't care about the drive, since it is a component and the logic board is a different component.

TEG
 
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