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Unbricking a hitachi
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14. December 2009 @ 03:45 |
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Anyone know of a way to unbrick a hitachi drive?
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14. December 2009 @ 04:12 |
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Originally posted by miketrev:
Anyone know of a way to unbrick a hitachi drive?
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14. December 2009 @ 04:31 |
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I attempted a flash with firmware toolbox following a guide on here and it basically said that the flash went tits up (unable to flash certain sectors), had to restart my machine and I can no longer view the drive on my computer. Also it wont eject which indicates no/corrupt firmware.
On a side note, I have a few spare flashed hitachis but they don't seem to read, is there anything special i need to do to get jungleflasher to see them (half open trick or something like that). I cant seem to get these drives in mode b.
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14. December 2009 @ 11:13 |
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As far as I know, once a Hitachi is bricked, there is no way to recover them. Maybe someone has found a way, but nothing public at least none that I've heard of. If you have spare drives, just flash the key in one of them and call it a day with the bad one. If the lens aren't any good in the other Hitachi that you have, just swap the lens out of the bricked one into the spare and you should be golden.
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14. December 2009 @ 11:32 |
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Fair enough, I though it was a gonner, just double checking.
Problem is, I have 2 spare hitachi's (both flashed with 1.51) from unfixable RROD xbox's, but jungle flasher wont recognise them :(. I do have a BenQ, but I dont want to use this as I wont have a 0800 drive then.
I did manage to spoof one of them but Im getting Play DVD so Im assuming I didnt do it right (although I quadruple check the key was correct). Now JF wont reconise it, I know its got firmware on it as it plays DVD's and ejects.
Anyone had any experience flashing a flashed hitachi drive, I know you need to flash back to original first but I cant get JF to detect it.
Also, whats the best method for Hitachis, PortIO or WinAPI? Apparently, they both works (so says JF manual). Ive tried both with the 2 drives I cannot reconise.
Any help on this is greatly appriciated.
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xbmods
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14. December 2009 @ 18:00 |
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Hi,
The Hitachis, are one of the most awkward Drives to be recognised by a System. The Sata Cards With the Via Chipset, Don,t Always see The Drive. Also You Have To restore An Hitachi to Stock, Before any attempt At Reflashing the key et,c. They are repairable but not the simplist of tasks. If you have any bricked-Drives. The eeprom can be de-soldered and re-soldered onto another logic-board. Once again not for the faint hearted :-)
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15. December 2009 @ 03:19 |
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Originally posted by miketrev:
I attempted a flash with firmware toolbox following a guide on here and it basically said that the flash went tits up (unable to flash certain sectors), had to restart my machine and I can no longer view the drive on my computer. Also it wont eject which indicates no/corrupt firmware.
On a side note, I have a few spare flashed hitachis but they don't seem to read, is there anything special i need to do to get jungleflasher to see them (half open trick or something like that). I cant seem to get these drives in mode b.
Hi Miketrev
i've got 3 hitachi drives that have gone wrong during the flash process and won't eject or be recognised in JF or on the PC. From what i understand the TSOP needs to be flashed with the original FW, whether it requires the chip to be unsoldered before it can be read/flashed i don't really know but what i do know is that i can't find anyone to do it cheap enough to make it viable to get them done :(
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Twiddler
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16. December 2009 @ 00:16 |
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I have a Willem programmer with the adapter for the Hitachi TSOP chip. I've removed and read about a dozen so far.
If you need a chip lifted and read, I can do it as long as I'm not swamped with requests.
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16. December 2009 @ 04:44 |
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Originally posted by Twiddler:
I have a Willem programmer with the adapter for the Hitachi TSOP chip. I've removed and read about a dozen so far.
If you need a chip lifted and read, I can do it as long as I'm not swamped with requests.
Hey Twiddler that is great news :) are you UK based and if so what do you need from us to do this repair? i.e just the board or the whole dvd drive?
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Twiddler
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16. December 2009 @ 08:37 |
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Nope, sorry, US-based.
I have had people send boards from Europe for repair though.
Just send the board and I will email the key back if it's recoverable. I can't guarantee that I can recover it but if it's on the TSOP chip and the chip is undamaged, I have always been able to recover it.
The only one that I have not recovered was a board that someone had attempted to put a mod chip on and the chip was physically damaged.
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Twiddler
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16. December 2009 @ 16:51 |
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Originally posted by Twiddler:
I have had people send boards from Europe for repair though.
Correction, not repair, key retrieval.
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