PS3 Blue-ray firmware dump
ATT:
just wanted to let ya all know
http://www.ps3news.com/forums/playstation-3-dev-chat/ps3-firmware-64747.html#post179816
that naturesbanthat @ ps3news has manage to remove firmware chips PS3 bios & blue-ray firmware
he's waiting on the adapter to dump the BGA Flash (Chip2) on the PS3 Blu-ray DVD drive.
maybe some xbox dvd-drive experts could lend a hand go by and check it out. ;D
when the firmware appears.
Oneohm:
They are using two firmware chips. The drive is using the Spansion SDRAM/Firmware chip similar to the PSP. For those of you interested, download datasheets for the MX25L1005 and Spansion S29AL016D. The S29AL016D from all my google researching is the Spansion IC being used on the drive.
I have confirmed that the drives cannot be swapped between consoles so there is a unique ID stored on the drive. I believe it will be on the Serial Eeprom MX25L1005. I have yet to swap this chip to confirm. This has been the least important issue I have had to deal with as far as PS3 failures so I haven't given it priority.
Oneohm:
Just to add an update. We attempted a swap of the 25L1005 IC from one drive to another this evening and unfortunately this does not contain the necessary key to make the drive play a disc in a console other than the original console it came in. So therefore the key must be located in the Spansion IC.
The next move we plan on taking is to load Linux on the drive and try to do a full dump of the drive firmware at attempt to locate a unique key in the drive firmware.
lasonnette:
why not just dump them? it's a lot easier :)
btw, is there any "recognizable" mcu on it?
Oneohm:
Recognizeable?? Yes. All things Sony in typical Sony style. Sony has always implemented what they call "the Dragon" mentality in their gaming consoles which basically means take a bunch of devices normally seperated and swallow them up into one package. I foresee this happening with this console. Here is what I know on the drive:
BMD-001 board
Rohm Motor Driver IC BD7956FS "Rohm 7ch Power Driver for CD-ROM" Datasheet available
Samsung Ram IC K4S641632K-UC75 Samsung 64mbX16 64Mb SDRAM 7.5ns Datasheet Available
Sony RF AMP (optical control) IC CXA2720R <researching test points for laser calibration (this is my field)
Spansion EEPROM IC S99-50111-001 (AKA S29AL016D) Spansion S29AL016DFFI02 16Megabit Flash Datasheet Available <BGA device. Anyone willing to Dump?
Sony MCU IC CXD5063GG-1
Sony ??? IC CXD5064R < not sure what this does yet
Macronix MX25L1005 Serial eeprom 1mbitx1 Serial Flash
JRC/NJM NJM13403 Quad OpAmp <may be used for laser biasing
Rohm BA5888 motor driver IC
Sony KES-400A Optical Pickup Assembly
I haven't dumped the firmware because it is a BGA device. I was really hoping the serial eeprom would be the key to being able to swap the drives.
The MCU has what appears to be a debug bus on the front edge of the board which may be promising.
Its tough to determine the interface on the drive. It is routed to the board through a flat ribbon cable which heads directly next to the SATA Controller on the mainboard but there is more than just a SATA connection through the cable. There is 60 pins total. It appears that they are routing both to the SATA controller and their DVD decoder on the original builds.
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