Are there some progress to report in this matter?

Just curious

 

A bunch of worthless IT guys around here!

[8D]

 

Can someone out there tell me the size in mm for the MMCS unit?

 

Hey all -- I might have some huge findings in this... so a little teaser for now:

Over the weekend I sniffed the data bus from the MMCS to the HDD. I have reason to believe that unlock password on the hard drives is all the same for every unit -- so my work could benefit everybody. Now I gotta do some testing tonight trying to actually unlock the drive on my PC and will definately post my detailed findings in the upcoming days.

 

Congrat! [sm=bounceybounce.gif]

Keep us posted. You probablly need to start with a new thread and let the admin make it sticky.

 

Thanks! Now the burning question -- do I start a new thread in the Outlander section or the Lancer section? I'm sure the info applies to both -- and I drive the 08 lancer.

I can say that it appears the MMCS encodes music to "RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, stereo 44100 Hz" format as "*.sc" files in a directory tree. I have no idea how the database stores the track names and what not, so there's still more hurdles to transferring our own mp3s to it. Also all the boot-up animation and screen backgrounds (including the rear-view camera guides) are either bitmaps or (animated) GIF images -- i'm sure they'll be easy to change!

 

I would say here for sure. You can do a quick check on both forums and find out this sub-forum is much more active than Lancer's
The work you did definitely deserves a seperate sticky thread.

You suprised me by saying they use wave format that is less efficient in terms of storage.
Some quick questions:

Is the MMCS running Linux as I guessed before?
Is there just one partition?

 

Unfortunately, all signs point to the MMCS running a Windows/DOS-based OS. I was really hoping for Linux, too I don't see any executable files, so I'm sure the OS is in Flash memory, and it only uses the HDD for data storage.

There are 6 partitions (3 primary partitions + a logical partition with 3 more partitions):

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2611 20972826 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2612 2627 128520 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 2628 2692 522112+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 2693 3647 7671037+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2693 2823 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2824 2954 1052226 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 2955 3647 5566491 b W95 FAT32

The partitions as I can determine are:

1: 20GB total, 9.9GB used, 11GB free -- Has all the map data
2: 125MB total, 0 used -- Empty
3: 509MB total, 24MB used, 485MB free -- has a single file "loading.kwi"
4: (logical partition for the next three partitions)
5: 1.1GB total, 9.0MB used, 1019MB free -- has all the background images, bootup animations, screen files, etc.
6: 1.1GB total, 346MB used, 682MB free -- CDDB Gracenote database
7: 5.4GB total, 1.5GB used, 4.0GB free (in my case) -- Music Server files

The songs are compressed -- each file seems to be about 3-4 MB in my case -- it just doesn't appear to be MP3 format. I'm at work rightnow, so I haven't had a chance to play them in VLC or something, but i'll do a "formal" writeup thread this evening and some more experimentations.

 

No sign of unix file structures in hda1 at all?[8D]That's a big surprise to me.
Are you saying it's running Windows 2003/Mobile/CE?
They hide all the op sys and device drivers in the ROM?
Nothing is left on the drive?

 

It is Proprietary MP3from what the manual says. So that could translate to MP3+DRM probably? And manual says you won't be able to play in the PC or any other player except MMCS. Just a little FYI.