Sounds interesting, and somehow makes me suspicious whether that one has
a NOR flash at all or whether the whole firmware is stored in NOR. How
big exactly is the data flash you see via USB?

Cory Walker schrieb:
> I just extracted the partitions from the 4G Nano firmware file using
> extract2g, and I stumbled apon some interesting results. It turns out
> that the 4G has many more partitions than the typical three (osos, aupd,
> and rsrc). I found appl, chrg, rsrc, bdhw, diag, bdsw, disk, lbat, osos,
> instead. Note that it does not have the aupd partition. Here is what I
> think these are for, in order: Apple booting logo, charging, filesystem,
> bad hardware error, diagnostic mode, bad software error, disk mode, low
> battery, and firmware. I don't know if this has already been discovered,
> but I just wanted to point it out. Another thing that might be worth
> looking at is the hash.fw partition in the 3G Nano and 6G iPod. These
> are probably not of any use because they are filled with 6KB of FF's.
> 
> -Cory Walker
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