I'm trying to flash my first drive and have picked up a VIA 6421 card.
I intially tried setting this up in my main PC but due to problems getting the Hitachi drive recognised by Windows 7, I gave up as it didn't seem to be working properly and now have the card installed in a second PC which is Windows XP SP3. I don't have a CK3 kit but various tutorials I have read and watched on YourTube say that this kit isn't required in order to flash a Hitach 79.
The card is installed, as are the VIA 5.3 drivers [this version of the drivers seem to be recommended in various forums], I also have the PortIO32 drivers installed which come with Jungle Flasher v1.66.
Jungle Flasher allows me to get the drive into Mode B and I have confirmed this by having to press the eject button twice to open and close the drive.
However, Jungle Flasher will not then redetect the drive once it has been put into Mode B. Windows has recognised the drive and allocated it a drive letter [f:]. After hitting refresh in JF a few times, it sees the F; drive with a volume name of 0000000000000000 - it seems to do this regardless of whether the 79 Unlock CD is in the drive or not.
At this point I'm stuck.
After putting the drive in Mode B, I've left the XBox on and rebooted the PC, it seems to take a little longer to boot into Windows and open My Computer but when it does it sees the drive but again JF doesn't recognise it fully.
I've tried Podger's dos app to get the drive into Mode B but it forces my PC to reboot. After watching some tutorials on YouTube, the only other option to get the drive into Mode B seems to be via a Slax 2.1 CD, however there seem to be lots of people out there who have successfully got past this just by using JF.
Just as an aside, I've tried renaming disabling the VIA card, renaming the VIA driver and then enabling the card again but then JF throws up an error saying that No VIA card or ports are present - I can't really find the relevance of disabling the drivers as the card then seems to stop working.
