Parts

1) Radio removall keys; I went with the Xtenzi‐branded D Double‐DIN kkeys for Audi//VW/Merc:
htttp://www.am mazon.com/ggp/product/B B005IBKI1W, aabout $10
2) An IDE SSD of your
y choice; I went with a 64GB Transccend PSD330 2.5‐inch IDE Internal SSD SSolid
Sttate Disk (MLLC Flash): http
p://www.amaazon.com/gp//product/B000AQT2LL6, ab bout $100
3) USB‐to‐IDE con nnection cablles (having tw
wo on hand alllows for direect drive copyying); I went w
with
“SSabrent USB 2.0
2 TO SATA//IDE 2.5/3.5/‐‐INCH Hard D rive Converteer With Poweer Supply & LEED
Activity Lights””: http://wwww.amazon.com m/gp/producct/B00CPGYN NV4, about $1 15 each
4) A T8 six‐point bit (and driveer) to removee all the screw
ws
5) VMWare Playe er, to run the QNX Rear‐Time OS (free ddownload):
htttps://my.vmmware.com/w web/vmware/ffree#desktopp_end_user_ccomputing/vm mware_playeer/7_
0;; for OSX, you
u’ll need Fusioon and you caan get going wwith just the trial period
6) QNX
Q 6.5.0 SP 1 “Neutrino” Runtime enviironment (yo u don’t need the entire SD DP; free
download): htttp://www.qnx.com/download/feature..html?prograamid=23665

First, rem
move the radio
o from the daash. Insert the radio keys iinto the slits ccircled in red:

The notchhes on the rad dio keys will need

n to face inward
i (each other) and you’ll know yo ou inserted thhem
correctly as they’ll “clicck” (you’ll fee
el springs bein
ng loaded). P ull on the keyys and the heead unit will ju
ust
pop out (aat this point it’s mostly held in place with friction froom the surrou unding dash ttrim).

ull the head unit out, there

As you pu e will be a slew
w of cables sttill attached tto it:

Not show wn in this pictuure are any caables attached to the trim just below th he radio key sslits (Audi Drive
Select, Staability/Tractio
on Control On n/Off, Hill Desscent Controll, etc). You’ll w
want to get those
disconneccted first. Thee ones shown in this graph hic are (from rright to left): a fiber‐optic (caution: laseer!)
in/out cabble with corru ugated plasticc sleeves (impportant), a muulti‐cable/purpose “carrieer” connector,, a
yellow and green four‐‐prong cable, and the XM//radio antennna. All except the carrier haave a small laatch
you have to depress be efore pulling on the cable.. Take your timme, each is sllightly differeent. You’ll neeed
nails, too (so, nail‐biters need not attempt this). Don’t pull haard on any of them as it means you’re d doing
something wrong. Pulling too hard on the first caable I describbed (with the plastic sleevees) can cause the
corrugate ed plastic to pop
p off even though
t the coonnector is firrmly in place.. So, look for tthat small lattch
before yo ou start pulling. Now, the really large multi‐purpose cable is like a lego constru uction of fourr
different connectors,
c all
a in one. Theey’re held toggether in a ca rrier that swivels out. The release is on n the
bottom off the square anda as you lift it up, it com
mes out of thee head unit. W When re‐inserrting, remember
to fully exxtend the carrrier, connect with the head unit, and thhen swivel it d down for it to o “lock” into pplace.

Second, open
o the MM
MI head unit. By
B now you should be lookking at this:

Remove the six screwss circled in red d with the T8 six‐point bit.. Notice the d
darker red circcle where thee
screw hass a little neigh
hbor; that’s so
ome sort of a pin that worrried me at firrst; it may jusst be some so ort of
reset mecchanism but itt ended up be eing inconseq quential). Breeak the seal ciircled in yello
ow. I tried to gget
crafty andd avoid breaking it but it wasn’t
w worth bending
b the m
metal flaps in
n the back. Usse your fingerrs to
pry open the front of the
t cover and d work your wayw back, tow ward those flaps. You can in nsert a small flat
screwdrivver in the areaas highlighted e. Only insert a millimeter or two as to n
d in light blue not damage aany of
the electrronics inside. Just rock the blade side too side to pop the cover, ass if opening a can of paint.
Third, rem
move the hard drive. By no
ow you shoulld be looking at the insidess of the head unit:

That’s thee optical drivee you’re looking at and it’ss not secured at all (as it w
was held in plaace by some o
of the
screws that also held the cover in place), so, be careful!
c Theree’s a ribbon ccable attached to it so gen
ntly
pick it up and flip it ove
er in front of the head unit (where the plastic dash ttrim is). Lay itt down and out of
the way. You
Y should be e now lookingg at this:
I did not remove
r the DVD
D cable (lefft) or that alum minum ribbo n (right) as I d didn’t find eitther to be in tthe
way. Just remove the three
t screws (circled in yellow) that aree holding the hard drive’s chassis down n.
You’ll neeed to tilt the head
h unit up from
f the rearr and unscreww them from the bottom o of the chassis. Be
mindful of the optical drive,
d if still attached.
a Wheere the greenn arrow pointts in his picturre above, theere’s a
little metaal “pin” that is sticking outt and holding the hard drivve chassis dow wn. You’ll waant to apply so ome
light leverrage with a smmall flat‐head d screwdriverr between thee screw and the pin and pu ush that pin
inward an nd away from m the hard drivve chassis. It’s only the thiird to last thin ng keeping thhat drive dow wn.
The secon nd to last thinng keeping it down
d is somee blue heat sppreader stuff glued in fourr specific places on
the bottom of the hard d drive chassis. And finallyy, the IDE ang led‐male‐to‐m male adapterr at the front of
rd
the hard drive
d is holdin
ng it down. Once the afore e‐mentioned pin (“3 to laast”) is out of the way, you u’ll
want to gently pry the hard drive ch hassis out of its
i little fox h ole, careful to
o not break the IDE conneector
(not so much the angle ed adapter bu ut the one soldered to thee circuit board d that the anggled adapter is
plugged in nto). The angled adapter ought o to stay attached to tthe drive.
Finally, re
emove the hard drive fromm the chassis byb unscrewingg the four mo ounting screw ws on the sidees
where the e yellow arrow
ws are indicating (don’t toouch the oness on the botto om that are aactually PART of
the hard drive).
d These mounting scrrews were T‐TT‐T‐T‐TIGHT bbut you will n not need to tigghten them tthat
much on thet SSD. Push h the drive do
own so that itt will disconneect from the angled IDE ad dapter. The
w probably just fall off at this point as there’s noth ing else holdiing it in placee. FYI, some of that
adapter will
blue heat spreader stuuff may stick to
t the hard drrive chassis a nd some mayy stick to the circuit board.

Interestin
ng factoid, oncce you removve the hard drive, you’ll nootice a little fllap on the bo
ottom side of the
chassis that’s bent inw
ward, right alo ong the narroww edge oppo site the angleed adapter op pening (indicaated
by the redd arrow in thee picture). I don’t know WHY they chosse to bend it inward but it presented qu uite
the “WTF? “ moment when w I inserteed the new SSSD drive as itt blocked it fro
om lying dowwn flush (one of
the moun nting screw ho oles was not aligned
a prope
erly). Just gra b some need dle‐nose plierss and straightten
that flap out.
o If you loo ok on the circuit board (at approximateely the same location), theere’s really no othing
sticking out that requirred that flap to
t point inwaard. Just makee sure it’s flatt and not poin
nting down (aand
thus not digging
d into th
he circuit boaard).

Fourth, cllone those drrives! You can

n start VM Plaayer by doublle‐clicking on the .vmx filee in the 650SP P1‐
VM folderr (I used WinRRAR to extracct the files fro
om the .tar arrchive). In ord
der for the QNNX RTOS to booot
up, you doon’t have to do
d anything. Just
J let it go through
t all itss motions unttil you end up
p with this:
You will want
w to conneect the two drrives to the USB/IDE
U adaptters and thenn the adapterrs to your
computerr. Make sure thoset featherrweight drives don’t go flyying from anyy tension in th
he cables. Youur
computerr will try to reecognize the new
n drives, ju ust ignore thee messages thhat pop up. Inn the VMWaree
Player winndow above, just click the Player dropd down, select R Removable D Devices, find the crypticallyy
named USSB/IDE adapter name (e.g.., “JMicron/JM Micron USA U USB to ATA/A ATAPI Bridge””; mine wasn’’t
obvious foor the adapte ers I used eith
her, don’t worrry), and clickk “Connect (D
Disconnect froom Host)”. Th his
will transffer control off those USB deevices to the QNX VM.

NOTE: If you
y don’t see any USB devvices, simply go g to Player ‐>> Manage ‐> Virtual Machine Settings, and
in the Harrdware tab click Add to add a USB Conttroller to the profile. You m
may need to rrestart the VM
M for
that change to take efffect. Then rettry the previo
ous instructio n.

At this point it may behoove you to o unplug and reconnect

r thee USB adapteers to your co omputer. The
control will again go baack to the VM
M. In fact, anyy time somethhing isn’t quitte right, I foun
nd that
reconnectting the drivees helped the QNX OS reco ognize them bbetter.
Click the Superuser
S ico
on. There’s no o password an nd you’re imm mediately loggged in. Mousse and keyboaard
control arre now passed d to the QNX VM. If you ne eed to returnn control to yo our computer, simply presss the
combination Ctrl‐Alt. Click
C the Laun
nch (“Start”) menu
m in the bbottom left, tthen select Uttilities, then
Terminal. This will starrt a Korn shelll session. Typ
pe “mount” annd press Enteer. You’ll see tthe partitionss
currently mounted and d their mountting point. Most likely youu’ll only see th he partition fo
or your QNX V VM
(mine wass “/dev/hd0t1 179 mounted d on / type qnnx6”). If you tyype “df” howwever (and preess Enter), yo ou’ll
notice thaat there are more
m devices visible. You should see thee device the aabove partitio on is a part off
(e.g., /devv/hd0) as well as a couple of other deviices for the haard drives connected via U USB.

(NOTE: If you see /dev/hd10 and /d dev/hd20 insttead of /dev/uumass0 and //dev/umass1,, disconnect aand
reconnectt the USB<‐>IDE adapters). One set (um mass0) is for tthe MMI hard d drive and thhe other is forr your
new SSD (umass1)
( but the order or naming will differ
d dependding on your ssetup. You’ll b be able to tell
them apart by the shee er size (expre
essed by default in cylinde rs unless you enter the co ommand “df ––h” in
which casse it will be exxpressed in byytes/MB/GB). First things first, look at yyour existing hard drive’s
partitionss. Type “fdisk““ followed byy the device path that poinnts to your haard drive, e.g. “fdisk
/dev/umaass0”. You willl see something like the fo ollowing:
You shoulld see the folllowing valuess for your Aud
di MMI drive::

1 QN
NX 77 0 3002 3003 *
2 QN
NY 78 30003 4381 1379
3 QN
NZ 79 43382 4487 106
4 Extd'd 5 44488 4863 376
4.1 no
onQNX 187 44488 4816 329
4.2 no
onQNX 187 48817 4823 7
4.3 no
onQNX 187 48824 4863 40
Whateverr your values are (and theyy really should match the aabove), writee them down (scroll all thee way
down by pressing
p N(exxt) or the dowwn arrow. Nottice there aree three QNX6 partitions (despite their Q
QNX4‐
style type
e), then an exttended partittion holding three other noon‐QNX partiitions). For more information
on partitio
on types, che
eck out Keldo’’s information n sheet here:
http://wwww.scribd.com m/doc/22149 92426/Undersstanding‐Hardd‐Drive‐Partittions

Now press Q to Quit. Run R fdisk for the

t new SSD drive.
d The firsst time, you’ll need to run it with the –z
argumentt to zero out thet partition table: e.g., “ffdisk ‐z /dev/uumass1”). The fdisk screen n will probablly
show one e big partitionn taking up the entire drive
e. Just D(eletee) it or C(hangge) it and create somethin ng
that lookss like the follo
owing:

1 QNXX 77 0 3002 3003 *

2 QNYY 78 30
003 7300 4298
3 QNZZ 79 73
301 7406 106
4 Extd
d'd 5 74
407 7782 376
4.1 nonQNX 187 74
407 7735 329
4.2 nonQNX 187 77
736 7742 7
4.3 nonQNX 187 77
743 7782 40
The goal is to work your way to the middle of the hard drive to determine how much room can be
allocated to the Jukebox (partition 2). Partitions 1, 3, 4 (and therein, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) will need to be the
same as before. The remaining space in the middle will be used for the new Jukebox partition. For each
partition you need to create, just press C(hange), enter the partition type (number), then the starting
cylinder and the ending cylinder. Don’t forget to press B when on the first partition to make it bootable
(an asterisk will display in the Boot column). Press S(ave) and Q(uit). Now on to the fun stuff. For each
partition that’s not the Jukebox (i.e., 77, 79, 187, 187.1, 187.2), run the following command:
dd if=/dev/umass0t77 of=/dev/umass1t77 bs=8192k
This will copy each raw partition (e.g., 77) from the old hard drive (e.g., /dev/umass0) to the new SSD
(e.g., /dev/umass1) (and 8MB or 8192k at a time). If you mess up the order (umass1 ‐> umass0) or the
partition numbers (t77 ‐> t78), you’re SOL (especially if you overwrite the original hard drive). So … be
VERY careful with this.

The tricky part comes when copying the Jukebox partition (78). First you need to format it:
mkqnx6fs –T media /dev/umass1t78
Once that’s done mount the original Jukebox partition as read‐only:
mount –r –t qnx6 /dev/umass0t78 /mnt/jukebox0
and then mount the new Jukebox partition as read‐write:
mount –rw –t qnx6 –o sync=optional /dev/umass1t78 /mnt/jukebox1
and then copy the files over
cp –R /mnt/jukebox0/* /mnt/jukebox1

Finally, put it all back together … in reverse order!