Hey Guys,
Thanks for all the help. I had a terrible time flashing this drive. I was expecting it to be so easy but WOW! Since last time was easy. So first i downloaded the 1.41 non stealth firmware from xbins and attempted to use iprep and received an error that firmware was not valid. I downloaded the xml file definitions and still nothing. So i tryed iprep 101, same issue and also a DTD error. I could not believe my luck this worked before. My jungle flasher does not work on my pc. It just does not read the xbox.
So i had a buddy's pc over and decided to give it a try on his. Both ipreps gave me the same error invalid firmware even though they are valid. So now i tryed jungle flasher. It was able to see the drive i was so excited but it would just freeze. It would put the xbox into vendor mode but then freeze during the reading of the banks. I tryed the 2 ports on the via card and the same thing. I was going to give up,
Luckly i found instructions on creating the custom firmware with the makefirmware batch and just adding the firmware to my current floppy from my old 1.5 flash. I ran the iprep and was able to flash the drive.
This is why i dont want to bother with the 1.61 firmware. I just dont want to go through this updating nightmare lol. But anyways i have 1.41 8x and it works nice. my buddy had a copy of mw2 and it worked fine.
Thanks guys for all the help. If you guys have any addvice for me on why i have so many issues with iprep and jf please let me know. And i hope this post helps someone else out. Sorry i cant find the link for the manual update.