Quote Originally Posted by bungiefan View Post
HDD Utility Disc and PSBBN won't format a non-Sony HDD. They scan for Sony's custom HDD firmware, and any drive that doesn't have it is not detected by the HDD support. Only the 40 GB hard drives from Sony have the required firmware. No other size is available.
Im pretty sure if you dig enough into the internet you could find the firmware, i just looked for it about 2 minutes and found traces of it, if i find anything i'll post it.