Hacking the Xbox 360

Documentation of my actions and findings

The DVD drive
Read if you are interested in any of the following:
Powering the drive from your PC
Using the drive in Linux/windows/other OS (without SATA swap trick)
Dumping (from a PC) the drive's firmware
Dumping (from a PC) the mn103 controller's internal memory
Dumping (from a PC) the drive's 16 byte encryption key
Dumping (from a PC) the 'forbidden' memory ranges 0x8002EC00-0x80037300 and 0x8003A000-0x8003A300
Writing to the drive's entire address space from a PC
Executing code on the drive from a PC
The drive's Mode Sense(10)/Mode Select(10) commands and supported mode pages
Writing (flashing) the drive's firmware from a PC



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