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Title: Might Not Belong Here, But What Is A Security Sector?
Post by: Hoowahman on October 20, 2006, 10:30:00 AM

Dude I was wondering the same thing and was about to make a thread.  With all these dang tutorials everywherre nobody explains what this for exactly and why we need to do it, people just repeat what they are told to do and if the end result works just go with it.  

Why does an original disk work fine on 360 dvd drive that hasnt been flashed, where if you flash the drive and make a backup of a disk you need to add a SS?  I'm really confused. Once you make this SS change on a backup will it work on all flashed 360 drives? or do you need to taylor the disk specifically for the firmware version and drive?  Thanks to anyone that posts some info or direction on where to read up more on it.


Hoowahman

Title: Might Not Belong Here, But What Is A Security Sector?
Post by: xboxexpert on October 20, 2006, 10:47:00 AM

The security sectors are codes located on the xb360 game discs. One of the things the firmware hack does, is making dvd-rom look for the security sectors on a part of the discs that can be written to.

Title: Might Not Belong Here, But What Is A Security Sector?
Post by: naziroo on October 20, 2006, 11:00:00 AM

So then, is this accurate:

1. The Security Sectors are located on the disc that normal DVDreaders can't read.
2. using an SS Extractor program, extracts the SS and pastes them in a file
3. Using an SS Merge program places the SS into the ISO of a backup in a place that the firmware will look at instead of that unreadable section.

Title: Might Not Belong Here, But What Is A Security Sector?
Post by: Hoowahman on October 20, 2006, 12:12:00 PM

ok that makes sense, so in order for a security sector injected iso to work all firmwares for different 360 drives and different versions have to look in the same spot?  Are the current firmwares like this?


Thanks,
Hoowahman

Title: Might Not Belong Here, But What Is A Security Sector?
Post by: Hoowahman on October 20, 2006, 12:35:00 PM

Yes but is this edited location of the SS on a burned disk universal for everyone?  Do different versions of firmware for different drives look in different spots?  Is this a concern?

Title: Might Not Belong Here, But What Is A Security Sector?
Post by: cyberdork33 on October 20, 2006, 12:57:00 PM

Don't quote me, but I think it is the same for at least most of the newer firmwares for both the Hitachi and the Samsung.