Deja Vu: Sony’s 3.56 Update Causes HDD Upgrade Problems

In Sony’s apparent attempt to prevent hacking on the PS3, the company may have caused more trouble for people attempting to upgrade their PlayStation’s hard-drive. Again.

Posts on both the Eurogamer forums and the PlayStation forums (see below) have shown the most recent update, 3.56, causes you to be unable to add new hard-drives. Users were met with error code “8002f2c5″ when adding the new drives onto their systems.

The only way to get a your PS3 back to normal was to put the old drive in. If, however, you’ve already formatted it, as some users have, then your Ps3 was essentially bricked.

Yesterday, Sony quietly released an update for the problem, keeping the same 3.56 version number. I just downloaded it using the PS3′s update system but if you’re facing trouble you’ll have to download it through your PC onto a USB stick. It’s unclear whether the most recent updates on Sony’s site (see below) are the correct ones, with forum users showing conflicting results.

This means that the problem shouldn’t happen to anyone else, but if it’s happened to you you’re not quite there yet.

It’s thought that this update was released to combat the use of homebrew software on the machine after it was cracked last month by George “Geohot” Hotz. Hotz is currently being sued by Sony over the hack, with the company recently winning a temporary restraining order on Hotz. Of course, that doesn’t mean others will stop trying, and the 3.56 update was cracked in a matter of hours.

Sony’s July 2010 3.41 update caused similar problems for people trying to add a new hard-drive, a process which Sony has no problem with.

You can check out these forum posts if you’re interested or looking for a fix.

• EUROGAMER PLEASE READ: PS3 update 3.56 HDD bug !!!
• PlayStation Forum: 3.56 Hard Drive Upgrade Problem
• Sony’s PS3 firmware page: UK & US.

via: Eurogamer