No, 3G doesn't have all these. I guess they didn't want to rely on DFU
in it's first release.

Taylor Gordon schrieb:
> So does the 3g and 6g have all of these 'partitions' also? It would
> make sense since they added in a dfu.
> 
> On 3/10/09, The Seven <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 16158298112 bytes are 15,0486 GiB.
>> So obviously they use some flash space for non-usb-accessible storage,
>> but 1GB sounds too much for the firmware partition. I rather guess that
>> this space is for wear leveling.
>> The initial PC on this platform will be the start of the processor's
>> internal ROM. However, it looks like that one takes over part one of the
>> 2G nano's NOR flash (initializing stuff and loading one of the boot
>> images), and the boot images that were stored on NOR flash were now
>> moved to NAND. This means it should be easily possible to corrupt disk
>> mode, but since iTunes now knows how to talk to a device in DFU mode,
>> that shouldn't be an issue.
>> So this one doesn't have any NOR flash any more?
>>
>> Cory Walker schrieb:
>>> That actually is interesting because the flash is actually 16.1 GB
>>> (16158298112 bytes). Isn't this code that would normally be stored on
>>> the utility flash? Maybe Apple scrapped that idea and just had a larger
>>> flash chip. I'll have to examine the flash chip more, but I am wondering
>>> how they got a 16.1 GB chip. Don't they normally only come in powers of
>>> two, like only 16 GB? If critical information like this is on the flash,
>>> wouldn't it also be possible to brick the 4G nano, or does it rely on
>>> DFU to fall back on?
>>>
>>> The Seven wrote:
>>>> 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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