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[cerealkillajme]

Hmmm... Flashed my ms25 with x40b... Burnout Revenge backup skips in the intro, didn't on 1.0, 3.0, or 3.3  

Will test other backups and report more info.  

Tnx for the new FW c4e, love the lockout routine and quiet by default mode.  

[kingroach]

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[ichigoxxx]

i know that is the code but is xsam compatible?

[vyse12012]

QUOTE(AddNtoX @ Oct 14 2006, 03:17 AM)

not to sound pessimistic or anything but microsoft surely can just doe something similar to putting it in 0800 mode fro the dash to enable reading of the firmware

the 0800 mode is enable by the SS sectors that's on the dvd+dl and to do so .. ms would need to do a disk with the SS sectors of the 2 layers the same as the 0800 disk ..  

this is what I think

[tezza192]

nice work C4E have just upgraded and it is the bollocks....

keep up the good work

[iPwn]

QUOTE(cerealkillajme @ Oct 14 2006, 02:52 AM)

Hmmm... Flashed my ms25 with x40b... Burnout Revenge backup skips in the intro, didn't on 1.0, 3.0, or 3.3  

Will test other backups and report more info.  

Tnx for the new FW c4e, love the lockout routine and quiet by default mode.  

then try 4.0A?  

[jabski]

sweet. Just about to flash my samsung drive this weekend and now have brand spanking new firmware for it

[BigSteel]

Does the enable 0800 disc need to be burned to dual layer?

[heartofalion]

QUOTE(BigSteel @ Oct 13 2006, 09:58 PM)

Does the enable 0800 disc need to be burned to dual layer?

yes with the same layer breaks as you would use for backups

[BigSteel]

QUOTE(heartofalion @ Oct 14 2006, 04:00 AM)

yes with the same layer breaks as you would use for backups

If i just use clonecd will it put the layer breaks in?

[Textbook]

You don't need to set layerbreak with the 0800 disc, it's only 253mb.  But you still need to burn it to DVD+R DL bitset to DVD-ROM.  Probably doesn't HAVE to be bitset to DVD-ROM, but I always do.  I just burned with IMGBurn, didn't set a layerbreak or anything.  Burning with CloneCD would work just fine as well.

[BigSteel]

Alright... I need help.  I tried to use the 4.0 firmware with samhack and it did read and then write, but would not work in the xbox.  I am now trying to flash it back to 3.3, but when I use samhack to do that it gets stuck on the first "enable blah blah part", is that because the flash protection is on from the 4.0 firmware?  So I just tried burning the enable0800 disc with clonecd to disable the flash protect.  I am using a connectivity kit, so I boot my mtkflash disc and then when the DOS prompt comes up I put in the 0800 disc and connect the sata, wait 10 secs and try to flash but it gets stuck at the same place.  Any ideas...please???

[Blietzkreig]

I have a Samsung TS-H943 with the dreaded MS28 firmware. Now I say dreaded, because I have spent many hours trying to flash the sucker using the "bad flash recovery" method only (I'm still not keen on de-soldering the resistor!).

I believe I have tried everything, 3 different motherboards (SIL,VIA & Nforce sata chipsets), hex edited mtkflash etc, etc and have followed all suggested methods to the letter, but the best I could get was an orig.bin that filled the entire remainder of the floppy disc space - with crap I suspect.

Now to my question - Will this new firmware release ease my pain and make flashing the MS28 any easier ?(seeing as though it is based on MS28)

If not - any tips or links to a definitive guide ?

I have read many suggestions in these forums and if the latest offering does not make it any easier, I'm coming to the conclusion that I need to de-solder ?

Thanks to all who make all this stuff even possible.

[cerealkillajme]

QUOTE(Blietzkreig @ Oct 14 2006, 04:58 AM)

I have a Samsung TS-H943 with the dreaded MS28 firmware. Now I say dreaded, because I have spent many hours trying to flash the sucker using the "bad flash recovery" method only (I'm still not keen on de-soldering the resistor!).

I believe I have tried everything, 3 different motherboards (SIL,VIA & Nforce sata chipsets), hex edited mtkflash etc, etc and have followed all suggested methods to the letter, but the best I could get was an orig.bin that filled the entire remainder of the floppy disc space - with crap I suspect.

Now to my question - Will this new firmware release ease my pain and make flashing the MS28 any easier ?(seeing as though it is based on MS28)

If not - any tips or links to a definitive guide ?

I have read many suggestions in these forums and if the latest offering does not make it any easier, I'm coming to the conclusion that I need to de-solder ?

Thanks to all who make all this stuff even possible.

This FW will not make flashing a true ms28 any easier at all. Sorry  

I feel your pain though. You might not have a compatible chipset. I spent 4 hours trying to dump one cause my chipset reported in DOS as VIA 8237 (which is compatible), then to find out later that it truely wasn't that chipset (and conclude mine must be incompatable). I ended up popping the resistor off and had the FW dumped within 5 minutes.

The only other option I suggest is buying a PCI to SATA card with the VIA 6421L chipset as those will definatly flash it and you won't have to desolder anything. I actually just got one cause I always prefer the safest route possible (especially on customers 360).

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BTW, still have 4.0B on right now. Tried Dead Rising, COD2, Kameo, THAW, and Lego Star Wars 2 backups after burnout skipped, none of them have skipped except for burnout. It's late, so I'll put 4.0A on tomorrow and post back about burnout. BTW B is nice and quiet, couldn't be more happy about that being default.  

[BennyBou]

Wow... I hope an update for the Hitachi drive come soon!!!!