DemonHades has released more details on his blog, regarding his PS3 Blu Ray drive to PC connection.
Translated quote from DemonHades blog:
Well more information from the recent work done by the HadesTeam and Calimba, this time show photos of the connection and also how Windows shows the drive contents PlayStation3.
08-03-2010
08:12 AM
I have two things to say:
1) Will this lead to anything useful?
2) http://www.haxnetwork.net/2010/06/ps3-demotivator/
08-03-2010
08:16 AM
I guess you'll just have to wait and see, like the rest of us.
08-03-2010
08:56 AM
How do you delete comments?
08-03-2010
09:14 AM
Apparently there are two pins on the drive for debugging, and you can change the drives pairing key as well. Key is stored on the drive board.
08-03-2010
07:38 PM
well good luck to them! maybe the future will bring good tidings because these guys have been steadily toiling with this machine.
if we can't hack the ps3, what will we do when skynet takes over?!
08-04-2010
02:28 PM
From where did the Strings come. Unbelievable that all Strings are at the front of the drive.
I Hope the best but can't believe it this moment.
08-05-2010
05:56 AM
Great find, can someone confirm that he can write bd's? Because it always will solve the problem in the form of exchange, the PS3 to a PC to burn backups.
08-06-2010
03:17 AM
I highly doubt he can write blurays; this is just a "Hello World"...lots of bugs, and it does nothing of the slightest use right now (other than maybe reading the same blurays that a $60 PC drive could read)
I do hope that this can be put into reverse...and they make a simple circuit that goes between the drive signal cables and the mainboard, to allow us to load games onto a "virtual drive" from a USB port on a PC. As for the encryption, as long as you read the disk from the outputs of the drive, and you send the "virtual drive" signals via the outputs of the drive, it seems like you could just leave it encrypted...that way, it would be so transparent that Sony could not use a firmware update to kill it.
BTW...I really don't condone piracy...but Sony has it coming. They stole software from us (Linux)...so I don't feel even a bit guilty stealing software from them, or even stealing software licensed through them, but made by others...most of the game companies are DRM-loving Nazi pricks anyway.
08-06-2010
04:30 AM
Ok, I'm a bit new to hardware hacking, but since the PS3 Blu-Ray drive works/worked in otherOS, couldn't you then make a dump of a blu-ray disc in otherOS and the "bad sectors" would be in the right place. So if you could replace the laser with a device to send the same binary data as the dumped disc image, wouldn't it then be as if the drive was reading a disc and therefor automatically encrypt the data for you?
If that is the case, then this would allow you to just dump images from your pc if you've already done a firmware update.