View Full Version : What is the technical reason that Lite-On DH-401S can read PS3 game discs?


shuffle2
24th January 2011, 07:22
I came across this earlier http://www.warepin.com/lite-on-dh-401s-reads-ps3-discs/ which piqued my interest, since I had no clue how the PS3 gamedisc protection/filesystem worked.

After some checking into it, I found that the filesystem is UDF (normal, I think?), and obviously there is no additional encryption if this drive can get at the filesystem successfully.

So that just leaves the question: why can this drive do it, but no others? (Note: I have no bluray drive to test with...just going by what I've read online). Don't really know where to put this post, but I figured asking here would be as good of a place as any. The more technical the answer, the better! :)