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Questions about FW Flashing
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 09:39 |
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I can't find anything about my motherboard to see if its compatible. It is an Asus A7N8X-E with onboard SATA.
Is there a way around flashing the drive everytime you want to backup a game and then haveing to flash it back to play it? Or is the the most productive way to do things?
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28. November 2006 @ 09:45 |
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whhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooaaaaaa!!!! hold on dude please explian a bit more..what you trying to do ... flash whish drive ???
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 09:49 |
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I'm not ready to flash yet, I just am trying to figure out if my mobo will work. I have read that some people's mobo's are not compatible and i've searched to see if mine is, but I have had no luck.
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mrlip
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28. November 2006 @ 10:04 |
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Go onto Device Manager on Control Panel, look under IDE ATA/Atapi Controllers, and see what Sata controllers it lists.
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 10:09 |
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IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
ATA Channel 0
(Properties>Advanced Settings) ATAPI Cdrom Ultra DMA Mode 2
ATA Channel 1
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
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28. November 2006 @ 10:29 |
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Thats not Serial ATA. I'd suggest getting a PCI SATA card if and when you plan to flash your 360
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 10:31 |
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What is it then? I have SATA HDD's, I took one out and formatted it for my powermac which also uses SATA and it works just fine there as well.
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mrlip
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28. November 2006 @ 11:00 |
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The reason your onboard Sata isnt listed under IDE controllers is because you probably have a raid setup. Your Sata port must be set to IDE not raid in your bios other flashing wont work. Anyway, can worry about that later.
According to Asus website, your board has a Sil3112A controller. And according to my docs, this chipset does not work with flashing Sammy drives. Thus you will need to buy a PCI chipset. They dont cost much. What country you in?
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 11:02 |
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USA
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mrlip
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28. November 2006 @ 11:33 |
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Ok. Have a look on newegg.com for the VIA6421L PCI Sata chipset. If newegg are out of stock, check a few other places. Thats the chipset you wanna get for flashing a Sammy
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 12:01 |
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Does my motherboard work with any drives? Also is there a PCI SATA that I can buy that will work with all drives?
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28. November 2006 @ 12:19 |
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Your motherboard will flash Hitachi drives with SLAX to get it in modeB. It's the reccommended chipset for flashing Hitachi drives.
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gillberg1
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28. November 2006 @ 12:20 |
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Alright, then I'll just look for a Hitachi 360.
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28. November 2006 @ 17:04 |
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Be use to use OPA 2.3 Stealth Revision 2.
Hopefully you will not get a Hitachi 0078fk as they are quite hard to flash.
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gillberg1
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29. November 2006 @ 09:16 |
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Is there a way to tell what drive is used before I open the box, like at the store?
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29. November 2006 @ 09:47 |
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Open the 360 drive. There are pics showing the difference between a Hitachi and a Samsung drive. The only thing is you have to open the 360 in order to tell which firmware is on a particular samsung/hitachi drive.
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