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[Textbook]

Do you have an MTK-based PC cd/dvd drive connected to the mobo?  And just to confirm, you're doing the bad flash recovery method, right?  Turn on the 360 at DOS, run mtkflash r /m /sata orig.bin and it should bring up a port menu.  (remember the /sata switch in the command)  When it brings up the port menu, turn off your 360, select your SATA port, then wait 10-14 seconds and turn on your 360.  It should start reading the firmware automatically.

[DarkSb3r]

Hmm.  Yeah, I'm trying to do the bad flash workaround.  I just have an LG  GSA-4082B dvd burner hooked up as slave on IDE0.  I also have an NEC ND-3550A dvd burner, but its not hooked up at the moment.  Is there a list of all MTK dvd drives somewhere?  I'm pretty sure its not detecting my SATA pci card because as soon as i type mtkflash r /m /sata orig.bin  it pops up with port: #### device: b0 (dont remember exactly how its displayed).  If i switch my dvd drive to master, it says port: #### device: a0.  Sooo, I'm pretty sure its just defaulting to that dvd drive.  If I unplug it altogether and run mtkflash, it just says no drives detected.  

I think the mtkflash i have is flakey or something.  I was able to get it to show VIA6421L Master as choice Number 2 once, but only once.  I didnt do anything different that time either.  It shouldnt be totally random like that.  I selected it, but I'm pretty sure I didnt have the timing down on the xbox360 right.  Anyway, I can't get it to display the VIA6421 as a choice anymore.  Pretty frustrating.  Maybe my hexedits aren't good enough?

thanks for the reply
-darksabre