Working on the software..

All is good on the hardware side of things. Here you see my second revision board connected to the PS3 drive connected and to a USB/IDE converter.

It's also really stable. The drive remains connected and doesn't show any sign of hardware instability. Here is Nero InfoTool, showing some of the drives capabilities.

I'm currently working on the software side of things, more to come..

Revision 0.2..

Here is a picture of the first revision:

Sadly the pinout I used for the first revision turned out to be complete bogus (never trust the internet). Although I found a second pinout on ps3devwiki I needed to be sure this was correct. So I broke the fcc connector from the 3k3y PCB and used a multimeter to follow the pinout to the JM20337 chip. Now I was able to match my own pinout to the one from the ps3devwiki, it turns out that's indeed the correct one.

So here is my second attempt. I'm still waiting for the PCB manufacturer for approval, but it's scheduled for delivery on the 11th, to be continued..