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I dont want to alarm you but I took this out of the 79 unlock tutorial from the pdf. you might not be able to use the sil chipset to flash the hitachi 79 drive.naruto101 wrote:well i have the hitachi 79 drive, the followed the video guide perceisely. I'm using my Sil 311a sata card. This hard successfully flashed my Hitachi 47dj a whiles back. The console of course is in modeb and the sata card is listing my drive in windows.
Hitachi 0078FK / 79FK / 79FL
These Hitachi drives are also flashed in Windows, using 360 Firmware Toolbox. Just like the other tools, the software should work with both XP and Vista, but only the 32-bit versions. These Hitachi versions must be flashed with a desktop PC with native SATA ports. A SATA-to-USB adapter will not work with this drive.
These drives can be flashed by most SATA chipsets. Silicon Image SATA chipsets will usually NOT work; they corrupt the data and will give you an error. Attempting to flash this drive with a SIL chipset could brick your drive. Also, in rare cases, there are reports that VIA chipsets have problems with some drives.
Personally, my VIA 8237 and 6421 are both iffy. I have to play with it for a while until I get it to read the drive. Shorter SATA cables seem to help with my setup. Many other chipsets should work fine.