M230 Mass Storage Works!
Mass Storage Works on model 230 53.14s! I feel like I am going crazy. The code in my 53.12 looked identical to code in original m200 3.40, but an OPS send monitor "wl 801c9ca4 0xa" never worked. After spending many hours trying to tracing through mips assembler code, I decided to look for the code on a 53.14. It also had what looked like identical code to both the 53.12 and 3.40. Hurrah! - after sending an OPS monitor "wl 801ebe44 0xa" and then pressing playback the no_name partition popped up unexpectedly. Now I am wondering whether I goofed on the 53.12 or if Pure Digital actually fixed a Mass Storage bug. Please verify that I am not crazy and try the following on your 53.05, 53.12, or 53.14: 53.05 wl 801c9a84 0xa 53.12 wl 801c9ca4 0xa 53.14 wl 801ebe44 0xa Press playback and report if no_name shows up as mass storage. IIRC I was just getting a mass storage device without any partition on the earlier model 230s. My next step is to dig for another method of rewriting firmware on 53.14s since nandextra output appears to be overwritten in sdram dumps. I am hoping to reach my final goal of a modified OTU model 230 that can plug into any computer and appear as a mass storage device in less than a week.

53.05 RiteAid, command worked, windows reports back as it being Mass Storage, but it doesn't mount. EDIT: Windows shows it as 118MB "Unallocated". It's there...just not "there" for windows :P Great find brite!

53.12 on linux, shows up as a full disk device, no partitions . mounts as a vfat device with no special options. files copy just fine, no issues. cool discovery, brite_eye. maybe your 53.12 firmware's borked? i can take an MD5 hash of mine so you can compare it to yours? scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: device found at 11 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: ZORAN Model: COACH6 (I62) Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 usb-storage: device scan complete SCSI device sda: 249855 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 249855 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda pretty cool...but this would only prove really useful to me if this was enabled automatically within firmware. for the effort to load ops, enable mass storage, press playback, then copy the files...ehh. i might as well run avidownload. --toots own horn-- now, two things would be nifty...either have the device show up as mass storage all the time, or have it be activated via the monitor command without having to press playback. before: 167B:0101 after: 167B:2002 EDIT: never said thanks.

Unable to reproduce results on my 53.12 using ops v0.20. Pressed Open, Unlock, then sent monitor command wl 801c9ca4 0xa then pressed playback on camcorder. Refreshed "My Computer" and didn't see new device. Tried this several times. I did notice that if after doing the sequence, if it then tried to open in ops it changed as such before: 167B:0101 after: 167B:2002

the VID:PID change means that the coach chipset is switching modes...the PID of 2002 means that it's in mass storage mode...now it's just a matter of windows understanding what the heck to do with it.

Just now I plugged in 53.12 opened, unlocked and sent monitor command and without hitting playback, the camcorder screen has text >> USB MSC MODE << and under that it has 16:50 (which is the time left, but not labeled as such) and under that the number 4 (which is the number of videos saved also not labeled) I think the difference is that I didn't wait for the camcorder to boot up all the way. In any case looking in device manager I see that a new Disk Drive appears that is without partitions and is 118MB. It was probably there all along. I resisted the temptation to partition or format it.

zapped- Mine never showed up in windows, check the device manager, it'll showup there as a Mass Storage Device, called Saturn, and the the Disk Management will also reveal it as an "unpartitioned" space. Don't recomend formating it. Nevermind....one minute too late :roll:

I can see 53.12 mass storage files using WinImage http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm : 1. Under Disk select Creating Virtual Hard Disk image from physical drive 2. Check include non removable hard disks 3. Selec the Zoran Coach and click ok 4. Save, wait and wait some more 5. Files can now be accessed I can also reboot to a live Knoppix CD and from Knoppix desktop, select go, storage media, click on last one and see all the files in p0/no_name. Just a guess but I wonder if flawed firmware is pointing to beginning of boot sector rather than beginning of extended partition. Thankyou PD for making it work correctly on 53.14 firmware! But what did you do to screw up nandextra monitor command?

mmm, yeah...winimage is good. it helped us with the pv2s also. good call.

2 rite m230s 53.12 - same results as Brite-Eye show up as ZORAN COACH6 (I62) USB device under Disk Drives under Device Mgr, but no volume under 'My Computer" the Device Instance ID under "Details" shows up as USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_ZORAN&PROD_COACH6_(I62)&REV_1.10\PS5000010&0 Now this is a Coach *8*, correct? Brite-Eye, what are the values you find for those entries for your 53.14? This is veddy interesting...

So I tale it they are not using the coach8 to anywhere near its potential....Lazy Bastards, They cant even keep up with RCA.