Recent content by gmipf

I think some (or all?) your download links to your CFW mods inside Webman updater are offline. I wanted to install the updated Extended Download Manager and Power Options on User column.

@CristianLara Try this script to compile and install the write enabled ufs module: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/ps3-hdd-decryption-helper.38281/page-5#post-362960 @CristianLara If you HDD is bad, then you should consider to image it first before damaging more, here is a good rescue tool...

@andshrew Sadly I don't have that drive anymore.

@andshrew I have read into you article a little bit regarding the 512e vs 512n topic. In the past I had a problem on my slim OFW PS3 which I have described here: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-hdd-mounting-and-decryption-on-linux.23308/page-13#post-375416 Could it be the result of...

@Berion Here are more ps3pt dumps. Btw I also successfully used "PS3HDD Keygen v1.8b.sh" on a drive from a real DEX unit DECH2500A. Since your script mentioned that model as untested I wanted to confirm that it works.

@Berion I'm a little late, not sure if you still need the attachments. I also had an idea why the ps3 filesystem is marked as BE. Maybe that filesystem is in-fact created and handled as BE but just the files are processed as LE on the fly in the ps3 OS? If that is the case, then I think the...

@RIP-Felix They are called "Federzwinge" in German. There are other brands too in Germany with exact same size. Here is mines: https://www.wolfcraft.com/products/wolfcraft/en/EUR/Products/Hand-Tools/Clamps/Spring-Clamps/PRO-70-Pointed-Spring-Clamp/p/P_3633 Here is a US seller in ebay too...

@RIP-Felix So I have ordered Permatex Ultra Grey but got instead Permatex Supra Grey. Since it is also in the rigid category I kept it. You said the following here: Is it a problem if I let the silicon dry in normal air environment? I wanted it to be perfectly centered and with your method...

Interesting, didn't knew CELLOS is writing data in LE. But the filesystem seems to be clearly set as BE, since FreeBSD is showing it as such. Why Sony did it that way? Seems unnecessarily complicated and a performance bottleneck too.

@Berion Could you find out where the identifier is in the ufs filesystem which determines if the fs is BE or LE? My idea is to swap that header/identifier by manipulating the drive directly before mounting on a LE FreeBSD VM and swapping the old identifier back after umount. I will not trust...

Actually I know a method to break the filesystem reliably but the process is tedious. I had a problem on my OFW slim CECH2500 where I couldn't install more than 600gb of PSN pkg game data. Already tried filled a 1000GB SSD, 750GB HDD etc. If I fill more than 550 or 600GB of it and after that...

Could you share the image with me? After removing all personal info of course.

@andshrew Do you still have an image of your drive in broken filesystem state or do you know how to break the filesystem irreparabel? I would like to experiment something.

@andshrew I get the same message but in reverse, forwarding /dev/mapper/ps3hdd2 to an amd64 FreeBSD VM. This should work since both ends are LE but the partition is marked as BIG-ENDIAN, regardless of what conversion is done before. Therefore I'm not sure if in your case FreeBSD is even handling...

@andshrew To me it seems that FreeBSD BE also supports LE FFS partitions. The conversion is probably done by the FFS driver of FreeBSD.