Flashing a Hitachi 79 - ModeB

[FoolzRailer]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to flash a friends Xbox 360 with the Hitachi 0079FL drive, and I'm following Shootsteels guide using Jungleflasher 1.66b

http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... 195&t=7781

I've hit a slight bump, I have my drive ejected, I put in my 79Unlock CD-R, and hit Send Mode-B. The tray closes and doesn't find the drive, now I eject the drive again, and press Send Mode-B as shown in the guide, but no matter how many times i repeat this, I can't get it to find my Hitachi Drive :/

When I start up Jungleflasher (which prior to I have ejected my tray 3 times and tried with more) and click the GDR tab, I can see the drive details there. Sorry for long post but:

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JungleFlasher 0.1.66 Beta
Session Started Thu Apr 22 21:21:43 2010

This is a 32 bit process running on a 32 bit CPU
PortIO is installed and running.
Found 2 I/O Ports.
Found 2 Com Ports.
Found 9 windows drives A: C: D: E: F: G: H: I: J:
Found 4 CD/DVD drives F: G: H: I:


Drive, answers normal Windows Inquiry 12 0 0 0 24 0
0000: 05 80 00 32 5B 00 00 00 - 48 4C 2D 44 54 2D 53 54 ...2[...HL-DT-ST
0010: 44 56 44 2D 52 4F 4D 20 - 47 44 52 33 31 32 30 4C DVD-ROM GDR3120L
0020: 30 30 37 39 0079

Mode-B Done!
Scanning for hardware changes
Found drive A: - Removable.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - Hard Drive.
Found drive E: - Hard Drive.
Found drive F: - CD/DVD.
Found drive G: - CD/DVD.
Found drive H: - CD/DVD.
Found drive I: - CD/DVD.
Found drive J: - Removable.
No Hitachi drives were found!

Drive, answers normal Windows Inquiry 12 0 0 0 24 0
0000: 05 80 00 32 5B 00 00 00 - 48 4C 2D 44 54 2D 53 54 ...2[...HL-DT-ST
0010: 44 56 44 2D 52 4F 4D 20 - 47 44 52 33 31 32 30 4C DVD-ROM GDR3120L
0020: 30 30 37 39 0079

Mode-B Done!
Scanning for hardware changes
Found drive A: - Removable.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - Hard Drive.
Found drive E: - Hard Drive.
Found drive F: - CD/DVD.
Found drive G: - CD/DVD.
Found drive H: - CD/DVD.
Found drive I: - CD/DVD.
Found drive J: - Removable.
No Hitachi drives were found!

Am pretty stumped at the moment, because I have to click the eject button on the CK3 kit two times to eject the tray, which I believe is a sign of Mode-B. However it just doesn't register as such, and I can't find it in Windows XP (32bit). Am I forgetting something or doing something wrong?

Any help would be much appreciated

~ Jens

Edit: The current firmware is Stock. I read something about a passkey, but I'm not sure if that still applies or how that goes? As i couldn't find it in the guide, might be that I'm the noob

[louisM92]

use a newer version of jungle flasher, use the same instructions too, goto http://www.jungleflasher.net/downloads.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for the latest jungle flasher, see if that works for you mate

[FoolzRailer]

Tried it with Jungleflasher 0.1.73B with the same results. "No Hitachi drives were found!" Tried with different SATA ports on the MOBO, as well, but no luck there either. It's weird to me because it can clearly find the drive in Jungleflasher, and I have to press twice on the CK3 kit to open it. But it doesn't show up in Windows, and I can't do the 79Unlock.

[louisM92]

does the tray close on its own wen you send mode-b? make sure you havent got mode-b on the ck3 turned on.

[FoolzRailer]

The light is blue which if I remember correctly is NOT Mode-B? I haven't used it for a while
And when I click the Send Mode-B button the drive automaticly closes, and I click twice for it to open again (On CK3), and then I click the Send Mode-B again. As far as I can tell it's the same as Shootsteel, except I just keep getting the "No Hitachi drives were found!" I tried the press twice and Send Mode-B 8 times in a row with the same result (Who knows, might have been lucky number 8, but sadly not )

[FoolzRailer]

I've also tried with 3 different 79 Unlocks, found different download locations for them, and tried 3, all of them burned using ImgBurn. Though that shouldn't affect the drive since I haven't really gotten that far yet I presume. But I'm trying everything at my disposal.

[HaGGardSmurf]

Try an older version of JF, some people have been having trouble with the new way JF detects your drive after mode b (scanning for H/W changes)

Keep in mind the hitachi is the biggest pain to flash, out of all 4 drives.

[FoolzRailer]

Well now something is happening, I used the 1.55 version and was able to click the Port IO button which was greyed out on the 1.73/1.66 and now I can click the 79 Unlock and it has run and said something like 500ms and ejected the drive. I think that I can now move on with the flash or ?

[FoolzRailer]

Also is there anything else I should take into account now that I'm using an older JF? Or can i just click Flash Firmware after I've dumped it and It will find everything pretty much like with the 1.73 ?

I get a nice key when I dump the drive. And so far as I can see I need the Ix1.51-4d20 version. If I find the target file using that with the firmware box and then move back into the GDR box and click Flash Firmware that should be it?

(When in the firmware box and I've choosen the Ix1.51-4d20 the key string for that is approx 0000000000000000, is that correct?)

[HaGGardSmurf]

You'll need to click spoof source to target for it to spoof your key over into the new FW.

Make sure you save that key, write it down on paper, or copy + paste it into a word document or something, dont lose it.

You should go on youtube and look up "Flashing a hitachi 79 drive" then follow that, its easier for you to watch a video and see what to do as opposed to you explaining what your doing, then I explain what you need to do next etc

[louisM92]

whatever you do just dont lose the key, like haggard said, write it down or copy it into a text doc, once the target firmware shows it has the correct key spoofed into it and it is the ixtreme 1.51 firmware go ahead and click flash ixtreme, it should flash great with no problems

[FoolzRailer]

Cheers for the help guys, fastest, nicest and best help a guy could want I just got one last question, because looking at the guides on youtube etc. (Using JF 1.55) I copy my key for save keeping, i find my Ixtreme firmware, i spoof source to target, and i go back into the GDR tab and I am pretty much ready to press the flash button, cept that in the upper right at the scroll down menu, I can't see the drive there, because on pretty much all the guides I could find, they have their Xbox 360 drive info showing up in the scroll down menu under "Drive" and I can't see mine there. Just wondering if I can go ahead or if it will try a flash into emptiness?

Edit: Am not using Win API, but Port I/O

[louisM92]

click on refresh under the drop down list, it may appear then. in the target firmware section under the firmware tool 32 tab show it has the correct key and is ixtreme 1.51 firmware? if yes then it should be ok to flash

[HaGGardSmurf]

It's probably not going to appear there seeing as with the newer JF you cant find your drive. (The newer JF sends mode b, then refreshes the list, and looks for the hitachi drive)

You can proceed to flashing the drive, for whatever reason it's not listed, but you know what port it's on so you can communicate that way.

[FoolzRailer]

Much easier to just show you




Flashable ?