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[mikearama]

QUOTE(-PK- @ Aug 10 2007, 11:21 AM)

If that doesn't work you can get another sata device plug it in to the primary sata port and power it on, go through the flashing process and when you get to the device selection screen power off the sata device & swap with the 360 drive, press the number next to Xtreme Pri Master, and power on the 360.

Hope this works.

PK... WOW!  Not in a million years would I have thought this would work.  How's unplugging another sata device and swapping in the problematic ms28 drive any different than powering down the ms28 and bringing it back up???  And yet... voila!  She worked... flashed beautifully.

Thanks kindly for the suggestion.
Mike

[mikearama]

Yeah, thought of that... so I lifted out the drives so I would have to use a pencil to open/close the tray... no difference.

I'm really thinking I have a spindle motor problem on both of them... like I said, with the top off, I can see the tray close, the laser fire up, but no disc movement... then the eject.

By the way, on both of them, the center light on the front indicators blinks constantly.  The outer ring lights do their normal boot up sequence, but that center light just flashes constantly.  Anyone think that indicates something specific?

[mikearama]

Not sure why the moderators decided to merge three threads, when they all deal with very different issues.  Nonetheless, two are resolved, but one remains.  To summarize...

I have two drives, an ms25 and an ms28... both are currently sitting with their original firmwares.  Both drives eject the tray, regardless of what's in the tray.  I can close the tray with the eject button, but after a three-count, the tray ejects, every time.  On the screen, it will change to Opening Tray, every time.

I've checked everything I can think of.  The tray appears to fully close and engage, and the laser lights up briefly.  As the post above explains, though... no disc spinning whatsoever, regardless of disc type.   If anyone has ANY ideas, please share.  Particularly regarding the behavior of the center light that I mention in the previous post.

THanks kindly.

[-PK-]

That sounds exactly like modeB then.  Normally you push the eject button while the tray is closing (might be just once or twice, not sure on sammys) and once you power cycle the console with the tray closed it is supposed to remove itself from modeB.

If it's not coming out of modeB, you could try inserting the 0800 disc (has to be DL disc) if you can get it to spin up with the above method (without the powercycle) to put it fully back in to modeb.  Then do the above again (with power cycling this time) to remove it.

Or if you can get the drive recognised in windows there might be manual commands to send the drive to remove modeB, not sure what they would be though (you'd have to search xboxhacker.net to see if it can be done).

[-PK-]

QUOTE(mikearama @ Aug 10 2007, 01:07 PM)

How's unplugging another sata device and swapping in the problematic ms28 drive any different than powering down the ms28 and bringing it back up???

Mtkflash only lists detectable hardware.  The sata card uses some sata specifications to initialize hardware when it gets plugged in and if the device is unsupported or if it fails to respond (no bios), the card itself wont recognize the drive and mtkflash is clueless.

The thing is, the idea of device selection in mtkflash is just to put a "label" on the port so the end user knows what they are attempting to flash, this is completely unneeded and by swaping drives your simply force-flashing on to the selected port.  If we had the source code for mtkflash we could make it always flash in this manor and it would only require powering up the console once after giving the command, but users would end up flashing their hard drives and other devices because they're too lazy to disconnect them.  MS on the other hand could use this same technique to fingerprint the fw (assuming they have access to low-level commands before the dash boots), which is why many people are cautious of what the last update did and why it took a minute when booting (note that ms could further reduce such time by reading only 1 bank instead of all 4).

[ssyoda]

Hey guys I just wanted to know if someone can help me step by step on how to flash my Sammy MS-28, I have flashed hitachi drives before. I have IExtreme V 1.2 and jump drive what else do I need thanks?

[-PK-]

QUOTE(ssyoda @ Aug 14 2007, 04:18 AM)

Hey guys I just wanted to know if someone can help me step by step on how to flash my Sammy MS-28, I have flashed hitachi drives before. I have IExtreme V 1.2 and jump drive what else do I need thanks?

Don't hijack threads.  Read the pinned thread containing Tutorials, and under Guides for the TS–H943 drive use the "Textbook's Hitachi/Samsung super tutorial"

This post has been edited by -PK-: Aug 14 2007, 05:31 AM