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[crinnie666]

Hi, i have been having a lot of trouble getting this to work. I have a ATI Express 200 chipset in my emachines e3042. The system specs show it as being a RC410.

The hard drive and dvd writer are connected by IDE but there are 4 SATA ports on the mobo.

I connected my xbox to SATA1, set it to legacy mode in BIOS. When i ran Dosflash32 the port came up as 0x3058

I opened up cmd and tried all manner of command and control ports. 3058,305A. All of the sugestions in the previous posts but every one of them comes up with 28lines of 'no error'

I tried Slax disc but it doesnt come up with any numbers just says SATA1:sic_sata, SATA2:sic_sata etc


I am really running out of ideas, can anyone help?

[podger]

crinnie666: the + 0x0A seems to be a via thing...... I ran the slax disk again... Linux it case dependant so try


dmesg | grep SATA

SATA in caps btw...

Hope this helps...

[jinayl]

Hi Guys,

I'm new to the xbox modding and I have been
trying to flash my Benq drive with an Intel chipset, reason why I'm reading this post thanks to the help of
Martinchris23. The only thing is that there are lots of things I don't know how to do or don't even know what they mean,
like setting the bios to legacy mode, slax2.1 etc... So I was wondering if one of you could post a glossary or a little tutorial
on the newbies chat so that those who are not familiar with flashing can get started without always asking the same questions, that
would be nice!

[KaosRain]

QUOTE(jinayl @ Sep 6 2008, 12:28 AM)

like setting the bios to legacy mode, slax2.1 etc...

Legacy (or combined/compatability) makes your SATA devices act like non-SATA devices for compatability with OS' or programs that can't handle SATA.

The option is usually in the BIOS under "drive configuration" "SATA mode", or something along those lines. You'll find it.

Note that using this feature will take away the advantages of using SATA (speed, etc), so you want to reset it to "native" or "enhanced" mode after you're done.

(When you turn on your computer, it says "Press (***) to enter Setup". Press whatever button it says to enter the BIOS settings. It's usually F2 or DEL.)

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Slax 2.1 is a small linux distribution that you burn to a cd and can then boot into from the cd, without installing anything.

You can download it from http://rapidshare.com/files/8454344/pSlax21.iso.html

[jinayl]

QUOTE(KaosRain @ Sep 6 2008, 01:47 AM)

Legacy (or combined/compatability) makes your SATA devices act like non-SATA devices for compatability with OS' or programs that can't handle SATA.

The option is usually in the BIOS under "drive configuration" "SATA mode", or something along those lines. You'll find it.

Note that using this feature will take away the advantages of using SATA (speed, etc), so you want to reset it to "native" or "enhanced" mode after you're done.

(When you turn on your computer, it says "Press (***) to enter Setup". Press whatever button it says to enter the BIOS settings. It's usually F2 or DEL.)

-----------------------------------------------------

Slax 2.1 is a small linux distribution that you burn to a cd and can then boot into from the cd, without installing anything.

You can download it from http://rapidshare.com/files/8454344/pSlax21.iso.html

Thanks a lot for the explanation, you made things a little brighter  
But nevertheless I feel like I'll have to struggle  to get this done  

[jinayl]

So far I was trying to flash my benq with the iPrep method described in the textbook. Would it be possible, to make things easier, to use this exe just to unlock the drive (to the point where it shows real values for the manufacturer id, , device id etc..0xx...) and then stop the process and switch to the iprep method using the usb boot?
Cuz I'm not familiar with the Dosflash32 method and I would prefer to use the iPrep method if possible...

[crinnie666]

i gave up in the end and bought a VIA6421 chip. couldnt get the 'textbook' way to work so ended up using this method and it worked perfectly

am now happily playing CoD4 on a DL DVD :-)


random off topic question tho, can i do anything else with the xbox now i have it flashed? like the wii and psp homebrew scenes?

thanks for all your help guys

[mdwin]

Has anyone else received an "incomplete packet write" error? it happens for all 28 codes

[mdwin]

Well im not sure what it was, but when i changed the drive to Secondary master it worked fine, and is now able to be read by dosflash 32.

[podger]

mdwin: did you have it as the Primary:Slave?

[mdwin]

nope i had it as primary master, and it was registered in dosflash as primary master. but whenever i tried to use benq unlock it just said "incomplete packet write" 28 times.

I changed it to secondary master and then it unlocked no problem. I just changed the profile in the bios not the actual cable.

[podger]

did you change the ports used.... if you didn't that would explain the first error

[tinpusher]

Having a problem.  I'm using the VIA 6421, Benq drive is the only DVD drive connected.  

Dosflash32 gives initial error of 0xB880.  I tried

Benq_Un_lock b880 b88a

My computer restarts after that command.

I ran grep ATA in Ubuntu and got

[   22.722308] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xff970000 port 0xff970100 irq 220
[   22.722311] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xff970000 port 0xff970180 irq 220
[   22.722313] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xff970000 port 0xff970200 irq 220
[   22.722315] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xff970000 port 0xff970280 irq 220
[   22.722317] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xff970000 port 0xff970300 irq 220
[   22.722319] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xff970000 port 0xff970380 irq 220
[   23.196586] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[   23.197144] ata1.00: ATA-7: WDC WD2500JS-75NCB3, 10.02E04, max UDMA/133
[   23.508073] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   23.819541] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   24.130984] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   24.606177] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   24.607642] ata5.00: ATA-8: ST3750330AS, SD81, max UDMA/133
[   25.081338] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   25.082774] ata6.00: ATA-8: ST3750330AS, SD81, max UDMA/133
[   25.084774] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD2500JS-75N 10.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   25.084903] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3750330AS      SD81 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   25.085019] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3750330AS      SD81 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   25.085607] ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xb880 bmdma 0xb8c0 irq 22
[   25.085610] ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xb890 bmdma 0xb8c8 irq 22
[   25.085611] ata9: PATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xb8a0 bmdma 0xb8d0 irq 22
[   25.552677] ata7: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[   25.717529] ata7.00: ATAPI: PBDS    VAD6038-64930C, , max UDMA/100
[   26.199427] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[  197.312846]          res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x14 (ATA bus error)
[  199.527906] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310) [  204.850733] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [  210.173563] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)


It appears this is the important line

ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xb880 bmdma 0xb8c0 irq 22

So, I tried

Benq_Un_Lock b880 b8c0

Computer restarts after this as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[tinpusher]

Oh, and I'm also running Vista.

[monkey6]

Has anyone had any success with a non-Intel chipset?

Spent numerous hours on this and it just doesn't work.

Got the cmd/ctl numbers off linux using slax.
Boot into a clean winxp install on a gigabyte mobo with builtin SiS SATA chip.
Dosflash32 sees the locked drive at the expected command port.
Fireup unlock with the parameters and poof - blue screen
I have tried the 2nd SATA port and the same thing.

Tried the default paramters - nada.

podger: any ideas on getting this to work?

Are there any winxp apps to verify the ctl port?

Sigh...