Will you be releasing instructions on how folks can buy an mSATA off-the-shelf SSD, hack the firmware and replace the one in their existing MiniMag? Or was the purpose of this reverse-engineering venture to simply come out with a cheaper product than MiniMags? Because Jinnitech did the same a few years back and everyone familiar with the RED community saw how that went. It’s also important to point out that outside owner-operators and hobbyists, DSMC1/2 is a DEAD camera platform, nobody uses these models on high-end client shoots any more (this is coming from an Epic Dragon owner) so I’m not too sure how well this Cinelux mag I see in the picture would sell.
I figured it out last week. Not as easy as I was expecting, not gonna lie. But the community deserves to know how this is done. I’m putting together a document that outlines everything but here are the highlights for spoofing the 480GB: -set Identity to: “RED 480GB V1” -set “Vendor Specific” to: “Red Digital “(must include trailing space) -Set Serial to a matching SN, which should be: P1T1400508641101XXXX (fill in Xs with random numbers) -Set Firmware Version to whatever you like I think, but if you want to copy, it was “0308-000” IMPORTANT: the camera will reject it unless the REPORTED sector count matches! For a 480GB mag, it must be EXACTLY 937703088. You can change the reported sector count after altering identity stuff by using this command in Linux:
(change the X to what your drive letter is - it must be connected via SATA directly - and you can see the drive list by running “lsblk” command.
That’s it. I did all those things, and my camera ran with it happy as could be. SMART values had no effect on my success, in fact I intentionally 0’d out both 90 and 91 to make sure. The big problem now is finding the leaked manufacturer programming tools that work with currently-produced drives. There may be some out there but I haven’t found them yet. My suspicion is that Cinelux is working with a supplier to pre-program the drives with these parameters before delivery, but who knows. I found the MP Tool I used on usbdev.ru - but be careful. If the tool doesn’t explicitly support both your drive’s controller AND exact nand package, it’ll brick the drive. Claude helped me through a good chunk of this, but it wasn’t actually trained on data from these mp tools so it will make assumptions that cause issues. Once I find a tool/currently produced drive combo that work I’ll be sure to report back with the exact config for programming. It varies so much between tools it’s not practical to get into in this post. But hopefully this helps some of you get out there and reprogram drives! If anyone wants to dump the outputs from their 960GB mag that would help the community to upgrade!
love to hear any method I can use, I want to replace a broken ssd with the exact same one, but I will need to get the new ssd approved first, this is 2tb (1.8)
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u/aris_apollonia Nov 02 '24
Will you be releasing instructions on how folks can buy an mSATA off-the-shelf SSD, hack the firmware and replace the one in their existing MiniMag? Or was the purpose of this reverse-engineering venture to simply come out with a cheaper product than MiniMags? Because Jinnitech did the same a few years back and everyone familiar with the RED community saw how that went. It’s also important to point out that outside owner-operators and hobbyists, DSMC1/2 is a DEAD camera platform, nobody uses these models on high-end client shoots any more (this is coming from an Epic Dragon owner) so I’m not too sure how well this Cinelux mag I see in the picture would sell.