Hitachi 79 Issues

[co30op]

I have a Hitachi 79 that is a royal pain in the ... I've tried everything I can think of to unlock and flash it. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm using Jungleflasher 1.70 connected through a PCI via Sata chipset (I've used it no problems on 30+ drives), and have tried to unlock using both auto and manual methods. the results listed below. I tested the laser figuring that might be the problem with it by playing the CD on Media player, as well as, VLC and it plays it with out a problem. heres the text from Jungleflasher when I go to flash it using the auto unlock and the manual unlock.

Auto unlock:

JungleFlasher 0.1.70 Beta
Session Started Thu May 27 14:04:45 2010

This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs
portio32.sys Driver Installed
portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !
Found 6 I/O Ports.
Found 0 Com Ports.
Found 9 windows drives A: C: D: F: G: H: I: J: K:
Found 2 CD/DVD drives D: F:

Drive Aborted the command

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: - CD/DVD.
Found drive F: - CD/DVD.
Found drive G: - Removable.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.
No Hitachi drives were found!
Tray Opening

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: - CD/DVD.
Found drive E: - CD/DVD. <--- Hitachi found
Found drive F: - CD/DVD.
Found drive G: - Removable.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.
Playing 79Unlock Audio CD
Pausing 79Unlock Audio CD, after 500mS
Ejecting 79Unlock Audio CD
Setting bit 3 @ 0x5BD
Executing code in Ram
Ram Execute command failed
Tray Closing
Playing 79Unlock Audio CD
Pausing 79Unlock Audio CD, after 500mS
Ejecting 79Unlock Audio CD
Setting bit 3 @ 0x5BD
Executing code in Ram
Ram Execute command failed

Manual Unlock (I had to play it threw Media player to get it done but tray doesn't cycle open, in fact it doesn't stop spinning) :

JungleFlasher 0.1.70 Beta
Session Started Thu May 27 14:12:01 2010

This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs
portio32.sys Driver Installed
portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !
Found 6 I/O Ports.
Found 0 Com Ports.
Found 10 windows drives A: C: D: E: F: G: H: I: J: K:
Found 3 CD/DVD drives D: E: F:

Scanning for hardware changes
Found drive A: - Removable.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - CD/DVD.
Found drive E: - CD/DVD. <--- Hitachi found
Found drive F: - CD/DVD.
Found drive G: - Removable.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.
79 Unlock set to manual mode.

Sending 79 Unlock Command!
Done!
Dumping f/w of Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method via WIN32 API
Failed to open drive E

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

[louisM92]

i normaly have problems with hitachis when trying to flash with a via card so i use my onboard sata, try that

[djshauny1]

Yeah what louis said

[co30op]

Thanks for the help you two. Unfortunately when I plugged it into the on-board Sata my PC would lockup. Good news I was able to Jerry Rig the drive/process and finally got it to work.

[louisM92]

good job man