My problem is that I have a Hitachi 47 drive that was being a terd about reading back ups and originals so I did a recalibration on the DVD laser. It is set at 3.20 after the POT calibration. I don't have the original system to test the drive out so I spoofed it to my system that has a BenQ drive. After I followed the instructions from Jungle Flasher 1.55 Adobe tut I put the drive into the 360 that has the BenQ. When I started up the system it gave an E66 code error. I went back to Jungle Flasher, put the drive back to stock, and tried again but instead of doing the steps the tut says, I manually spoofed the drive as the BenQ. Now the Hitachi drive doesn't give the E66 code, but when I turn the 360 on the middle green light flashes and the drive will not open, close, or read games. I can still hook it up to the computer and get it into ModeB, at least Jungle Flasher says it is in ModeB, and I can put it back to stock, or reflash it, but as soon as *I turn the power off on the 360 and back on, the middle light goes back to flashing again and the drive won't eject or anything. The BenQ drive works in the system fine, just the Hitachi won't do anything now, even though my PC will recognize it and the360 sort of does. If I manually open the drive and then plug it into the 360, when the system turns on it starts to try to close the drive and the tray moves like 1/4 an inch and stops. I just don't know if it is bricked or what so any help would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
These drives are a pain in the butt, not bad to flash, but I have had bad luck getting the to work on backups as well. Lasers are just junk. I'd honestly get a benQ and spoof to that. If the POT cal is set around 3.04 and it still doesn't work, I'd say you need a better drive. Just my 2 cents, some people have better luck. Of course, the Q would work right away.
I have a Hitachi 47 and my backups would often freeze and I would get the "Play DVD" problem on originals as well as backups.
After pot calibration, i went from 3.90 to 3.26, everything now works great. I have heard stories where persons performed the calibration and completely wrecked their lazer and the drive no longer worked (which is a possibilty in your case), if all else fails, make sure that you re-attached all of the ribbon cables when reassembling the drive.
If that doesn't work, then you may need to buy another drive and spoof it.
I made sure everything was reattached before trying to plug in the drive. It just acts like it is stuck in ModeB or something. The only way I can get it to open and close is if I manually make it open and close. If I get a game in the drive it won't spin or anything. When it is hooked up to the 360 it will say open tray and when I try to use the eject it will just say close tray and when I use eject again it says reading, but nothing is happening. The lens won't move, the drive won't spin, nothing. If it is bricked would the 360 know a drive is there and would the computer know the Hitachi is there too? I am not super worried if the drive is bricked just because it is an extra drive that wasn't reading games anyways. I just want to know how I bricked it and why it won't do anything so I know what not to do next time, and if there is something I can do to fix it I would like to know that too.
The point is to learn. That is why I was asking for thoughts. Learning is the best way to get better at things and to make less mistakes if that makes sense at all.
I followed the directions with the Jungle Flasher tut for 1.55. I have spoofed Hitachi's before. I have spoofed all 4 drives to different types and just spoofed like a BenQ drive to a BenQ drive. I just have never dealt with doing POT Calibration before. I was just hoping someone else may have had a similar issue and had ideas I could do to try and see if it would work. More than likely the drive is shot.
