Hit a wall so to speak. *flashing problem*

[FunkyMonk]

Come a bit unstuck trying to flash a 360 for the first time.

I've followed the guide(360 hacking for noobs) pretty well i thought. I have an Hitachi v47. Have the 360 in b-mode by booting the slax, now i've rebooted Vista, leaving the 360 turned on with the light flashing.

Then i used xbins to download the "iXtreme1.4_Hitachi.rar", unrar'd that and moved it onto my C: drive. I then ran "FLASHIX.BAT", selected drive "H", speed 8x, then i named the backup folder, then hit enter. And it starts the flashing proccess flashing. But it doesn't get passed the first part. Its stuck...... i guess. Anyway, here is what its stuck on.

FLASHING DRIVE h:\ HITACHI v.47_16s FIRMWARE SPEED 8x

Flashing 01/11 Sector 90003000 (Xtreme Custom Code)

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It just stays on this for a very long time.

So, can anyone help me out? Please? Thanks!!

[CoFree]

well
that is odd man
im not the best hit guy so i dont know what i can tell you.

make sure that firmware you are using is on the desktop.
what chipset is your computer.the hit are not very picky but it could be that.
you may want to try on a different computer.

here is our video on flashing a hit.
hey right
has it been flashed before if so you have to do a restore before you can flash it again.

have a look.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... =110&t=322" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FunkyMonk]

well
that is odd man
im not the best hit guy so i dont know what i can tell you.

make sure that firmware you are using is on the desktop.

What i did was put the firmware(the rar i downloaded from xbins i assume?), well what i did after extracting the files was put it directly in the c: drive folder.

what chipset is your computer.the hit are not very picky but it could be that.
you may want to try on a different computer.

I'm using a pci sata controller card i bought especially for doing the flashing. Its one that known to work as far as i know, this is the precise one (site seems to be down at the moment). I just installed it and away it went. Maybe i don't have it installed correctly? I'll give it a go on my brothers PC tomorrow. His chipset is an "ABIT AN-M2HD, nForce 630a+GF7050PV, Socket-AM2, DDR2, HDMI, m-ATX, PCI-Ex16".

hey right
has it been flashed before if so you have to do a restore before you can flash it again.

Never been flashed before.

here is our video on flashing a hit.
have a look.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... =110&t=322" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'll take a look at the vid, cheers. Be tommorow before i try flashing it again. Head is done in from it today, lol!


Another thing, when using slax to get into b-mode, it didn't work perfectly. It got to a point where during the booting where it would say 'Disc is spinning..............................................', so i did what the guide says and simply pressed eject, which seemed to work. Would that matter at all? Just trying to give you as much info as possible here to maybe narrow things down.

Thanks again!!

[CoFree]

when it gives you the spinning up disc you are going to hit the eject button.that is right.
slax can be a pain some times.
i use this to get the older hit in modeB.works every time.
http://www.modchip.ca/store/product.php ... 284&page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[FunkyMonk]

WEll hopefully i can get it done without one of them. Would be a another week or two before i could get that modchip, which would suck ass.

Question, when using slax, and it boots fully. Is there anything else you need to do. Because all i've been doing is logging in as root and then rebooting to Vista. No "doping anything" per se.

And my brothers chipset? Should that be okay to try? Or would i be wasting my time?

[CoFree]

nforce is a good chipset it could/should work on that.
something else you can try is the other slax
they are both here.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... 112&t=1283" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

how do you know its in modeB.
does it take two clicks to open and close the dvd drive.

[FunkyMonk]

nforce is a good chipset it could/should work on that.
something else you can try is the other slax
they are both here.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... 112&t=1283" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks, will check that out.

how do you know its in modeB.
does it take two clicks to open and close the dvd drive.

No, only one click. But the power led was flashing, i took that to be a sign of modeB? On another occasion, whne i trid to close the drive it would open again automatically. I read that that was a sign also? But no, its never been that i needed to double click the eject button to open or close.

ps. i'd imagine this wouldn't matter but i'll ask it anyway. I've been using a DVD-RW to boot slax with? That would be fine i suppose?

[CoFree]

well i do it off a cd,but yea i dont see where that should matter.
well like i said before im sure it should take 2 clicks of the eject button to open the dvd drive if its in modeB.
but
im not the best hit guy.
maybe one of the other guys will jump in on this.

have a look here is getting it in modeB with a kit,but it dont matter he has to hit the eject 2 times for it to open or close
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpD0S32oVA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[sadalius]

It should take two presses of the eject button to eject or close the drive if its in mode b. Also, the only way the drive will show up in windows is if its in mode b.

One suggestion that I would make is to use firmware toolbox to do the reading and flashing instead of the files that come with the cfw files. You can get a better idea of the communication flow between the computer and the drive this way.

[FunkyMonk]

It should take two presses of the eject button to eject or close the drive if its in mode b. Also, the only way the drive will show up in windows is if its in mode b.

Well Windows is definitely recognizing the drive. As i can eject it from Vista by right clicking it and ejecting. Does that mean its in mode-b?

One suggestion that I would make is to use firmware toolbox to do the reading and flashing instead of the files that come with the cfw files. You can get a better idea of the communication flow between the computer and the drive this way.

Could you talk me trough that one? New to all this. Where do i get a firware toolbox?

Thanks for all the help. Appreciate it.

[CoFree]

well firmware toolbox is in the 360 download thread.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... f=112&t=48" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
get the v4.8


we need to make a video on flashing the older hit with firmware toolbox.
sadalius will need to walk you through it.

[sadalius]

You can find firmware toolbox on xbins. It's also available in our download section. Here is a LINK to it.

Using firmware toolbox seems complicated when you first use it, but its not really that bad. Once you get the drive in mode b, boot your computer into windows. Then open up firmware toolbox. Then click on TOOLS and then Direct Drive Dump (GDR Only). Once you do that, a box will come up where you have to select your drive. Make sure that your hitachi is selected, it should be by default. Click the eject button and either put a DVD movie or an original game in the tray and then click the close button. Wait a few seconds for the drive to spin up and if any autoplay boxes come up, just close them. Then click the Classic Dump Firmware as button. Name it orig.bin and save it somewhere that you know where its at. Make several copies for save keeping or even consider emailing it to yourself. It should dump the firmware at this point. When it finishes, it will ask you if you want to open the firmware. Choose yes. If it asks to check the firmware, answer yes as well.

Check the Key and make sure that its valid. It will be alot of random characters and numbers, not all F's or 0's. If it is all F's and 0's, try dumping the firmware again.

Now click tools, and then select Smart Hack Patcher. Choose ok on the next box and then click the little box with the three periods to choose where to save and name your hacked firmware. You can name it anything you like, but I usually use hacked.bin. Then make sure the rule set it iXTREME14_0036-0059_12x, by default its set to iXTREME14_0036-0059_8x and then click the generate File button. It will generate your hacked firmware and ask if you want to open it. Choose yes.

Then choose Tools and then Direct Drive Flash (GDR Only) Differential Flash (Patch). Make sure your hitachi is selected in the top box, then check the Use Classic Mode box and then click Read and Detect Differences button. It should read the current firmware and compare it to the hacked firmware. Then display the differences in the box labeled Flash these sectors. When that finishes, click the start flashing button. It should start flashing the drive.

When it gets done, your ready to try it out.

Sorry thats so long, but thats how it works in firmware toolbox. I hope it helps you out!!

[sadalius]

There is also a program in our download section called mode b. You can try to use this to get your drive in mode b without using slax.

[FunkyMonk]

I'm giving it a go now on my brothers machine. Using slax, i get this,

sata1: softreset failed retrying in 5 secs
sata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (status Oxff)
sata1: Comreset failed

Thanks sadalius, i'll give that a try too.

[FunkyMonk]

There is also a program in our download section called mode b. You can try to use this to get your drive in mode b without using slax.

How would that work? Just boot up the drive in Windows and run the program from my desktop? This is what the readme file that comes with the program says.

Mode-B

This exe is a win32 app that will put a Hitachi in Mode-B by sending cdb E7 H I T 30 90 90 D0 01

Be warned: This win32 program does not use the windows API. The exe writes directly to the ATA controller's I/O ports (which requires Geek Hideout's I/O dll, which I have included in the rarr). It also requires that you be using an ATA - SATA adapter to connect your 360 drive to your PC, or an SATA controller that has a legacy mode (try the BIOS setup options on your controller).

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USAGE:

Put Hitachi 360 drive in Mode-B, so it can be seen in windows

usage: Mode-B command_base
command_base: base register of ATA command block in hex (e.g. 1F0 or 170)
legacy mode sata: command base = i/o from msinfo32

Command base register is the port you would generally get from iPrep for Samsung and Benq.

I replaced the "if" statement with a "while" statement when the sending the cdb..... if the statement fails it returns 1 but bow prints a "." rather than an error or timeout message...

e.g.
power off the hitachi
type:
Mode-B 1cc0
power on the hitachi

dots should stop and say "done!"

Drive should show up in windows...
You can test mode-b with the eject trick, 2 presses to open etc....

Which i can't make a whole lot of sense out of tbh. lol! Frustrating.