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no reason to post in 2 different threads
i read the other one.

oh sorry

hey everyone, just a quick question again. say if i had a samsung ms-28 drive and want to swap it with a brand new samsung drive ms 28. what would i need to do. just do the dben get the firmware sam-ofw and then plug in the new drive and do rsam and use letter from same folder. am i right,

and also if i need to flash it with ixtreme do i just do then fben.
thanks

if you are using the same drive then you can just dump the firmware from the old one and flash it in to the new one.

parminder wrote:hey everyone, just a quick question again. say if i had a samsung ms-28 drive and want to swap it with a brand new samsung drive ms 28. what would i need to do. just do the dben get the firmware sam-ofw and then plug in the new drive and do rsam and use letter from same folder. am i right,

and also if i need to flash it with ixtreme do i just do then fben.
thanks

dben is for dumping the benQ drive! it's dsam... for the samsung
***I suspect just a typo...***

I would dump the new drives firmware 1st - if the rsam to the new drive fails (i shouldn't but just incase..) you can use firmware toolbox to modify the new dump with the original key then rsam it to the drive

[quote="MsK"][quote="parminder"]hey everyone, just a quick question again. say if i had a samsung ms-28 drive and want to swap it with a brand new samsung drive ms 28. what would i need to do. just do the dben get the firmware sam-ofw and then plug in the new drive and do rsam and use letter from same folder. am i right,

i mean dsam not dben but what i will do is dump the firmware from old drive. dump the firmware from the new drive, if it has one and then do what you told me. i will post the results soon.
thanks

If you had two samsungs and wanted to swap one for the other, you would need to dump both drives, making sure that you can tell which dump is from what drive, take the hacked firmware that iprep gives you, open the one that you want to replace with firmware toolbox and copy they drive key. Then open the one that you want to use and paste and replace the key with firmware toolbox. You won't need to do any spoofing or anything since they are the same drives. Then just take your hacked firmware that you changed the key on and put it into your iprep folder and then flash it with the fsam 1234567 12345 command.

The key to this being successful would be making sure to keep track of which firmware is for which drive. But it's like MsK said.

yep.. i'm with sadalius here -
In the case of replacement drives I modify the new dump with the original key via firmware toolbox.

I don't straight overwrite the drive with another drives firmware..
I do not dispute it can be done this way, it's just not my preffered method.


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Also... I don't want to confuse matters but It's worth mentioning that you do not have to use numbers for your dumps you can use letters also.
& DOS has an 8 character limit ..

so, for example -

• you could dump your original drive as : dsam 1234567 12345_og
  "og" used as an indicater to represent your "original" drives firmware
  
  & dump your second drive as : dsam 1234567 12345_nw
  "nw" used as an indicater to represent your "new" drives firmware

or something to that effect..

For me this helps with remembering which dump is which since they are clearly tagged


Then you can apply the key to either the hacked firmware or the original - "whichever way you want to go - depending on if you want ixtreme or not" - & flash with either fsam or rsam..
^depending on your choice as outlined above.

Thats a good point MsK. I didn't even know you could do that with iprep. So I guess you can teach and old dog new tricks!!

yeah everything is clear to me now. just have to wait for the new drive to come and this faulty machine would be up and running. thanks for great help

hi, just have this hitachi drive 0078fk, and well never seen this drive around but it was made in 2006 and is a gdr3120.. so do i flash this the same way as i flashed 0046dh/dj 0047dj 0059dj?
thnks

the best thing is to use textbooks guide.
http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... =110&t=662

with the v78 the only way to get it in mode B is with the slax disc.

so even if you have a xeno kit with mode b it wont go until used a slax disk, cool will read textbook guide and get back,

can i do this like keep the drive in mode b using xeno kit and also using the slax disk for putting it into mode b. i read the textbook it says xeno wont work and can i still use xeno for powering the drive an shall i put it into mode b or normal to ppower it.
thanks

i use the kit for power and the eject at one point you need to hit the eject.
but modeB must be by the slad cd


ive got a v78 guide about half done.
ill put it up as soon as its done.