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OpenMSS
Open Firmware for Maxtor Shared Storage
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OpenMSS
Open Firmware for Maxtor Shared Storage
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Decoding MSS firmware v1.2.0The firmware file for MSS contains actualy two TRX images concated into one file with a special header at the start. The first TRX image contains kernel and pivot miniroot fs. The seconds TRX image contains only the rootfs that is to written to disk. The header look like this: 42 52 43 4D Magic - BRCM 03 00 00 00 0x03 = 3 = Number of sections 15 00 00 00 0x15 = 21 = TYPE_TAG 65 00 00 00 0x65 = 101 = buildinfo.txt size 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 0x12 = 18 = TYPE_FLASH 00 B0 18 00 0x18b000 = 1617920 = part1.trx size 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 0x13 = 19 = TYPE_DISK 00 B0 59 00 0x59b000 = 5877760 = part2.trx size 00 00 00 00 Section 1 - Buildinfo 00000020 46 69 72 6d | Firm| 00000030 77 61 72 65 0a 31 2e 32 2e 30 0a 75 6e 6b 6e 6f |ware.1.2.0.unkno| 00000040 77 6e 0a 42 75 69 6c 64 20 64 61 74 65 3a 20 54 |wn.Build date: T| 00000050 68 75 20 4d 61 72 20 32 34 20 31 39 3a 30 30 3a |hu Mar 24 19:00:| 00000060 32 32 20 50 53 54 20 32 30 30 35 0a 42 75 69 6c |22 PST 2005.Buil| 00000070 64 20 62 79 3a 20 72 6f 6f 74 40 6c 6f 63 61 6c |d by: root@local| 00000080 68 6f 73 74 2e 6c 6f 63 61 6c 64 6f 6d 61 69 6e |host.localdomain| 00000090 0a |.| Section 2 - HDR0 (trx formated image) at offset 145 (0×91): 00000091 48 44 52 30 00 b0 18 00 38 e8 51 52 00 00 01 00 |HDR0.°..8èQR....| 000000a1 1c 00 00 00 5c 93 11 00 00 00 00 00 |....\.......| Kernel is at offset 173 (0xad): 000000ad 1f 8b 08 08 b3 7e 43 42 02 03 70 69 67 67 79 00 |....³~CB..piggy.| 000000bd ec 7c 0d 74 5c e5 79 e6 3b f7 8e a4 |ì|.t\åyæ;÷.¤| Mini romfs is at offset 1151981 (0×1193ed): 001193ed 45 3d cd 28 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |E=Í(............| 001193fd 43 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 20 52 4f 4d 46 53 |Compressed ROMFS| 0011940d Section 3 - HDR0 at offset 1618065 (0×18b091): 0018b091 48 44 52 30 00 b0 59 00 cf 28 de 2d 00 00 01 00 |HDR0.°Y.Ï(Þ-....| 0018b0a1 1c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........| Main romfs ran from the harddrive at offset 1618093 (0×18b0ad): 0018b0ad 45 3d cd 28 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |E=Í(............| 0018b0bd 43 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 20 52 4f 4d 46 53 |Compressed ROMFS| 0018b0cd |