1.El hdd esta cifrado (lo mas probable) con un formato propio de sony.
2.Con Linux instalado en la maquina contendra las particiones ext2 o ext3 pero no sera visible a un os normal.esto es porque el hdd no tiene una tabla estandar de partición, si uno utiliza el programa WinHex encontrara las particiones ext2/ext3/swap en sus respectivos lugares.
3.Un programa de 16bytes se escribe donde estan los dato contiguos en el hdd. Este programa a encontrado bloques de datos en un hdd de 60gb.
4.El mayor interes esta arededor de los 370mb, comensamos a ver bloques de datos de 64kb, y esto se repite cada 183.72MBs.porque el sistema necesita un 64kb tan a menudo?. Es un misterio.
5.Cada hdd es individualizado en cuanto es formateado en una una ps3 en particular.un hdd individualizado no se puede usar en otra ps3 debido (en teoria) a una firma unica escrita en cada hdd.
6.Hay un proyecto que individualiza de la misma forma 2 modelos (Seagate Momentus 60GB 2.5” SATA) identicos
7.Esto diff tambien sera analizado por el programa de datos.
En ingles
1. The HDD is encrypted with a (most probably) Sony proprietary format.
2. If Linux is setup on the machine, the HDD will contain the relevant ext2 or ext3 partitions, but it will NOT be visible to a regular OS. This is because, the HDD does NOT have a standard partition table. If one uses WinHex to scan the HDD, then the program will find the ext2/ext3/swap partitions at their respective offsets.
3. A program has been written to scan blocks of 16bytes for where contiguous data is on the HDD. This program has identified major blocks of data on a freshly formatted 60GB HDD.
4. Of major interest is that right around the 380MB marker, we start seeing blocks of 64KB data, and this repeats itself EVERY 183.72MBs. Why does a system need 64KB worth of markers every so often, is a mystery at the moment.
5. Each HDD is "individualized" the moment it is formatted on a particular PS3 unit. An individualized HDD CANNOT be used in another PS3 unit due to (in theory) a unit based signature being written to each HDD.
6. A project is underway to "individualize" 2 same make and model (Seagate Momentus 60GB 2.5" SATA) HDDs and perform a byte level diff to spot differences in the disk layouts.
7. This diff will also be analyzed by the data block scanning program mentioned in Item-3 above.
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