Using HL3120 drive with linux and plscsi

[probutus]

That's very good news; now we have the TS recognized and can be accessed via /dev/hdX (depends on where the drive is connected; see dmesg output) This means we can play with it and plscsi

EDIT: changed hdc to hdX to avoid confusion

[Dzgx216]

Just noticed what was going on with the TS drive... Great job guys!! Keep up the good work!  I've been pretty busy, but still playing with my FW/RAM dumps when I have the opportunity. (F'ing school... gettin all up in my way!)

@Seventhson... Thanks for the tip on the tray status in mode B.  For now, I'm gonna leave it as is for now though, might mess with it later.  All my time now is going to studying.  Got two tests coming later today (It's 3am, first test in 8 hours... must... study... brain... structures... *drool*... *snore*) (Damn hypothalamus making me sleep again)

@Probutus... I still don't think I can thank you enough for the work you've done getting this drive working.  It's a wonderful thing.  My friend has a TS in his system and just asked me today if there'd been any work done with it... have to point him to the newest version of that SLAX iso...

@Slack3r... SLAX rulz. Thanks for helping to get this thing moving. (I've made some progress now that I have RAM dumps to work with)

@God... please help me to do well on my tests, and find a small bag with 1 million dollars in it later today. (large bills are ok with me)

[coop]

What's next with plscsi?  I tried playing with it a bit, the version you built into the 360 dvd module, but it failed on me everytime.

[probutus]

to use plscsi with the ide interface you have to modify it a little bit -> see Pandors post above; you could try:

./plscsi /dev/hdc -v -x "12 0 0 0 24 C0" -v -i x24

EDIT: Added the vendor specific byte (C0), which is still required for drives in modeA)

you should see someting like that (tested on my NB; I currently do not have my 3120 around; but tested it earlier and it worked): (please adapt /dev/hdc to the interface where the drive is connected (see dmesg))

x 00000000 12 00:00:00 24 00 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "R@@@$@"
x 00000000 05:80:00:31 5B:00:00:00 4D:41:54:53 48:49:54:41 "E@@1[@@@MAT$#!tA"
x 00000010 44:56:44:2D 52:4F:4D:20 53:52:2D:38 31:37:36:20 "DVD-ROM SR-8176 "
x 00000020 4C:58:33:39 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "LX39"
// 0 = plscsi.main exit int

Since it is (yet) very little known about the ts drive (and I doubt if there are also debug commands available) but it is very likely that all other commands (except the E7 HIT commands) are also working on this drive... It should be also possible to read out/flash the firmware via the command interface but we still have to find out how....

[Slack3er]

Congrad's on everyone's progress..

Dzgx216 with dumping memory, Probutus patches/Linux ISO/Modules, Coop getting his TS detected... 

This is new to me, sorry if you already knew it..  Correct me if I'm wrong...

Linux has two Sata Frameworks, Newer Libata(SCSI) or Older IDE System(IDE). This older IDE system(Siimage) is what the ide-cd patch is using. It seems this older sata supports other chipset than just Silicon Image. Ex. Quote "Promise Fasttrack, HighPoint 37X, Intel ICH5/6, LSI, and SiI 3112A/Medley, etc..." If this is true, than that should mean the ide-cd patch should work on other chipsets than just Sil...   

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

[probutus]

Hi again,

it seems that there is also a possibility to connect the drives via a usb-sata adapter. (In this case we do NOT have to deal with the pata/sata crap).
In the meantime I killed accidentially my MBR (of course I did not make any backup...) so I am still restoring my system. Hopefully I get my usb-sata adapter in the beginning of next week...

[Hajaz]

Hi again,

it seems that there is also a possibility to connect the drives via a usb-sata adapter. (In this case we do NOT have to deal with the pata/sata crap).
In the meantime I killed accidentially my MBR (of course I did not make any backup...) so I am still restoring my system. Hopefully I get my usb-sata adapter in the beginning of next week...

any update on this? i'd order one of those adapters at ince if someone could get it to work with the samsung drive

[probutus]

Yes, it's finally working; please have a look here:

http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=33&topic=663.msg6313#msg6313

There's a dedicated thread for the usb adapter. It should work with all xbox1 and xbox360 drives

[Hajaz]

sweet. I saw someone found the command for dumping the TS FW through software. hope it actually works as it would be a big step forward for people with samsung drives

[probutus]

ah, can you post me a link please?

[Hajaz]

Perhaps such a command is:
plscsi -vx "ff 08 05 00 05 01 03 00 04 07 01" -i x10 --please

bs?

[BlueCop]

he is refering to this thread.
http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=33&topic=659.0

Tiros mentions a command. i haven't had a chance to test it myself because of lack of linux box with sata controller.

[probutus]

Thanks for the info; it seems that MacDenns' way of using the usb-sata bridge is a very comfortable way of getting all drives detected (at least by linux); This makes life much easier for me since I do not need a extra pc for testing (The WAF (Woman Acceptance Factor) is very low for these kinds of experiments); I can connect the drive directly to my NB (without having to deal with the very 'basic' support for sata devices (no more kernel oopses and lost interrupts!))

Next thing would be a tool to unlock the 360s game partition by uploading custom code...

BTW: I just got IDA4.9 Advanced; I will do some adaptions to the MN103 module to make it compatible (I have a win98 installation inside qemu on my linux box; not vice-versa  )

[Pandor]

...
BTW: I just got IDA4.9 Advanced; I will do some adaptions to the MN103 module to make it compatible (I have a win98 installation inside qemu on my linux box; not vice-versa  )

Would be nice if you could share yor findings/code on that. I'm currently also using ida 4.9 under wine.

[BlueCop]

there is an ida pro for linux and windows. If you buy the windows version you also get the linux version for free.

[evestu]

bluecop you tried the linux.iso in this thread 

To get your new 3120L drive picked up in windows ?

use iso to boot linux wait till it finsh reboot pc into windows (dont switch your 3120L drive off leave it powerd)

windows should see the drive when it starts up if not try scan for new hardweare

my sata bios did not pick up the drive ,but windows found it still after reboot 

also by puting a disc in, as soon as slax finds the drive it will spin up loud

[BlueCop]

thanks for the advice evestu. got it dumped now.

[Pandor]

there is an ida pro for linux and windows. If you buy the windows version you also get the linux version for free.

I know that the linux version comes with the windows version (i have it here), but it doesn't have a nice gui.

[evestu]

probutus i would like to ask you a question about the linux.iso

will it enable a 8050L drive to switch to mode B as well has this been tried  ?

can this feture be added ( linux is a new place for me    )

i know the 3120L drive is ok

thanks

[probutus]

Hi Evestu,

the usb-sata adapter also takes the 8050 drive but not the ide-cd driver... I can add support for this drive but I need the Identification string (that what is posted on startup when the BIOS checks for connected drives) of the drive to put it into the ide-cd.c driver...