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[mcornbill]

Hi all

Before I buy a PCI SATA card I just wanted to know if anyone could confirm that the following mobo: here should be able to flash the Toshiba Samsung DVD drive?

I'm using the Xecuter connectivity kit to power the dvd drive and it is plugged into a SATA port on my mobo.  Using the Nforce 4 version of MTKFLASH as this is exactly what chipset I've got but after choosing option 1 for Master it does nothing, after pressing ESC I get the "status=00, should be 70" message.

I don't think I need to get a PCI card and the dvd drive itself is not sending out the right signal so to speak to prompt mtkflash into action.  At what stage do you power on the dvd drive and does anyone know if any of the 2 switches on the Xecuter's kit need depressing during this?  One seems to eject the drive and the other changes the led from green to red.

Thanks in advance

Mark

[mcornbill]

Ok then I'm now using the hexeditor method and it tells me I need to find the 2 "I/O Port" lines With a Difference of 7 in order.  Problem is my last 4 digits are all letters and I don't know hexadecimal!  Can anyone look at the screenshot and tell me which two lines I should use?

(IMG:http://static.flickr.com/98/207449943_afe12a8e67_o_d.jpg)

Cheers

Scrap that, used hex calculator to figure it out.

This post has been edited by mcornbill: Aug 5 2006, 08:51 PM

[mcornbill]

5 hours in and still no joy

Have successfully booted from USB now as my floppy drive is shit.  MTKFLASH still won't work, tried it in different SATA ports, tried powering on the drive at different times, tried xbox 360 autoflasher program but that just says "invalid directory" when I choose an option.  Hexedited my mtkflash with my nforce4 details from msinfo.  The furthest I get is this error:

Port: 9f0, Master/Slave: a0

Hopefully someone will release a more robust mtkflash utility that works with all chipsets with minimum of fuss!