Detecting the file system on an SD card/flash drive

Hmm, don't have SD cards have some security/lockout features.... after the S in SD stands for SECURE, AFAIK.

Maybe the original device using the card actually took use of those features....

 

Pretty sure it means secure as in non-volatile, not secure as in hard for a 3rd party to access

 

Chances are that the Blue Elf writes to the SD in a format that is unsupported in all the OS you have tried out, thus far.

So it looks like you're out of luck or need to look up this Guru guy.

Look up any forums that talk about Blue Elf 2 hardware. Maybe they might be more helpful.

 

Info is pretty scant on the Blue Elf 2, so far I haven't found much on it at all, and I've been looking for about a month (even before I got the cart)

 

If I'm not wrong, certain types of SD cards allow for security (passwords) to be employed.

 

Security in SD means DRM not the fact that its non-volatile.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#DRM_features

The Security in SD cards it pretty advanced. You can program a card to only unlock so it can be read/written to when a certain key (like a AES key) is given to it. So its possible that they may have locked down the card and the only thing that can read it is the Blue Elf cart.

 

Is it possible it could be operating in SPI mode? Does anyone know anything about that in relation to SD cards?

Something like this? http://microcontrollershop.com/product_info.php?products_id=2055


I find it hard to believe Rocky licensed Digital Rights Management to protect a pirated software cart, though I guess anything is possible at this point

 

If it was running in SPI mode your computer would be able to read it, as its part of the SD/MMC interoperability thing... Even Memory Sticks talk in SPI mode, it just a form of communicating with the card,

Its a pirate cart right? who is to say that they didn't pirate the DRM too :lol:

That said, its still possible that they are talking to the card directly, not relying on any of the SD standards, and just using the card as cheap storage in raw binary format.