Robin Hoods Playground

I notice in Cofree's video of flashing older Hitachi's, he uses "mode select" instead of "classic dump".

Is mode select better?

Should PIO be used or API? I have onboard silicon image 3112 sata, and also the VIA PCI card. What combo would be better with the old Hitachi?

Thanks, I just don't want this thing to freeze up and brick my only drive.

i would not use the via sata ports with jungle flasher

Yeah
I allways switch to my onboard sata when flashing hitatchis

Just the opposite happened. The onboard silicon image 3112 sata would freeze after the first dump.

The via card was fast, smoothe, and allowed me to dump over and over.

So I used API mode with drivers installed, and it worked great.

Thanks for the help you guys.

I've always used VIA to flash hitachi's with. 0 problems for me except for a couple of drives that had hardware problems.

I use VIA as well, but my drivers need to be disabled, the one time I had them enabled I had all kinds of problems, but still flashed successfully.