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[R5Rich]

I am having HUUUUGE issues trying to get my drive to flash.

I have a via-6421 and can get the drive into modeb either in windows or via slax and using firmware toolbox and JF I can get the drive to dump the key fine.

The problem I have is when it comes to writing to it, I get errors all the time. They range from ram upload failed/unlock failed and loads of other ones. I have tried both port32/winapi same problems with both.

In firmware toolbox I can read the drive fine and dump that as well but when it comes to flashing the drive I get "Can not communicate with drive". Using 47.exe to do it I get "Can not write sector xxxx retry yes/no"

I have tried on different ports on my card to no avail. Now im using my onboard sata and I can get that into modeb very easily and windows detects it instantly but I get all the same errors as above.

I have googled over and over again looking for people with same issues and I have tried doing things in a different way but nothing seems to work.

Once it did appear to flash it all fine but then when I check the FW again it says its stock still. It seems to be these drives have issues now adays?

Strangest thing is I only got this console about 3 weeks ago as a replacement for mine that RROD'd and it has an hitachi drive in it from feb 06  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Many people had success with these drives?

Thanks in advance!

[Exobex]

For future reference, cheap USB-SATA adapters work OK on pre-78 Hitachi drives.  Don't know if JF supports them, but I know Firmware Toolbox can use them (albeit not in "Internal Flasher" mode) and flashes 1.5.1 to them.  It gives errors part-way through (once the stealth bit of the 1.5.1 firmware goes on the drive) but the result from my recent experience appears to be a good flash.