Updating Bluray Drive Firmware on Linux

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Introduction

  • No use actually but just for the sake of scientific research :)

Current BD FW Version

Using Storage Manager service get_version:

sudo ./ps3dm sm get_version
00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00

Using SC Manager service get_region_data:

sudo ps3dm scm get_region_data 8 | hexdump -C
00000000  00 03 00 50 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |...P............|
00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000030

Or reading it from BD drive istelf, see http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/BD_Drive_Reverse_Engineering#Get_Version.

Sending BD Firmware to BD Drive