goddamn hitachi!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bsammy]

wtf, whats up w/ this fing hitachi drive? never had such trouble flashing a drive, and these are supposed to be one of the easiest to flash? drive is stock, its detected in j/flasher. whats funny is that j/flasher sais f/w version is 0079 but label says 0047 heres the latest log...... help


Mode-B Done!
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - Hard Drive.
Found drive E: - CD/DVD.
Found drive F: - Removable.
Found drive G: - Removable.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
No Hitachi drives were found!
New CD/DVD detected.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - Hard Drive.
Found drive E: - CD/DVD.
Found drive F: - Removable.
Found drive G: - Removable.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - CD/DVD. <--- Hitachi found
Playing 79Unlock Audio CD
Pausing 79Unlock Audio CD, after 500mS
Ejecting 79Unlock Audio CD
Setting bit 3 @ 0x5BD
Executing code in Ram
Done!
Flashing Hacked f/w to Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method via WIN32 API
Dumping Flash:...............Ram Upload - Upload Failed

[bsammy]

anyone have any suggestions?

[CoFree]

was it working before you took it apart
it sounds like it was flash with the wrong firmware

you said hit drive are easy
they suck

samsung v28 all the way

[bsammy]

i selected the portio option in hitachi tab, managed to get key and when i go to flash i get this

This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs
portio32.sys Driver Installed
portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !
Found 4 I/O Ports.
Found 1 Com Ports.
Found 8 windows drives C: D: E: F: G: H: I: J:
Found 1 CD/DVD drives E:

...........
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!
Playing 79Unlock Audio CD
Pausing 79Unlock Audio CD, after 500mS
Ejecting 79Unlock Audio CD
Done!
Flashing Hacked f/w to Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method over Port IO
Dumping Flash:.Ram Upload - Execute Failed
Flashing Hacked f/w to Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method over Port IO
Dumping Flash:Ram Upload - Upload Failed

[CoFree]

man
its been a long time with me and a hit drive
im sure you have to reflash back to stock first
then do your flash

[bsammy]

damn this sucks!!! is it posible to flash w/ iprep?

[moonknight]

I don't think iPrep did Hitachi. Been using jf on Hitachi for as long as I can remember.

[CoFree]

iprep never did hit drives

[moonknight]

Just curious, you said the drive sticker itself says it is a 047? Has this drive been flashed before and maybe spoofed as a 079?
To identify if the drive is indeed a 079, remove the dvd drive casing and look at the board. Later versions like the 079 had an epoxy on the board to try and prevent probing one of the chips and dumping it.

If it doesn't have the epoxy (or epoxy residue like someone removed it), then it is probably a 047 drive like the sticker on the case says, and you can flash it back to stock 047.

You said you got a good read of the fw, right? Open that in the first tab of JungleFlasher (Firmware Tool32 tab) and see what it identifies the drive as. It should tell you the Vendor, Model, Rev, and Firmware Type; verify the Rev says 0047 or 0079, and if the Firmware type says Stock or if it lists an IX version.

[bsammy]

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You said you got a good read of the fw, right? Open that in the first tab of JungleFlasher (Firmware Tool32 tab) and see what it identifies the drive as. It should tell you the Vendor, Model, Rev, and Firmware Type; verify the Rev says 0047 or 0079, and if the Firmware type says Stock or if it lists an IX version.[/quote]



yea, this is definetly a 079 take a look:

Found 1 CD/DVD drives E:

Loading firmware file C:\Users\Documents\Hit-OFW.bin
MD5 hash: ****************************
Inquiry string found
Identify string found
Drive key @ 0x4D20 ***********************
Firmware Osig: [HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR3120L0079]
Firmware is: Stock

[moonknight]

And the dvd drive motherboard? Did it have the epoxy on it? That would be for sure that the drive is not a 0047.

Code: Select all

Dumping Flash:.Ram Upload - Execute Failed
Flashing Hacked f/w to Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method over Port IO
Dumping Flash:Ram Upload - Upload Failed

Dumping flash looked like it failed here.

If there is a second computer to try the dump and flash from, I would try that. Hitachi's are a bitch if the puter doesn't like it.

[bsammy]

so, it does have the epoxy, so its a 79. it keeps coming up w/ ram upload failed. do you think its my pc? i never have a problem flashing my liteon. when i open source firmware it tells me its rev.79 and stock firmware. just to make sure..... i want source firmware to be ofw, and target firmware to be cfw in firmware tab right?

[moonknight]

Epoxy => 0079.

If you are sure it is stock, then you want to load it in jf and let it select the cfw flash for you. There are a lot of different flashes for the Hitachi, and even different flashes for each rev of Hitachi based on key location.

Try using an older version of jf, like 1.75 or something instead of the newer version.

If it doesn't, see if you can flash from another computer.

Last question, when in mode b does the computer detect the drive?

[bsammy]

ill give it a go w/ an older j/flasher. and yes its detected when in mode b. thanx for your help, ill keep u posted.