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[Spark]

I have received a Benq drive from Asia which was manufactured in September 2006. It seems to be older than the current model in my console and I can't seem unlock it in either Dosflash32 (v1.6Beta and 1. and the latest JF.

VT8237 but I have also tried my onboard Sata controller which doesn't work either.

The drive unlock in JF will get so far and then produce a failed error message. In DF the attempt to intro to the drive just times out. Using the Intro function in JF does the same thing.

I've had a look at this thread on XH and it seems like the guy there was able to dump and flash the drive in DF 1.6 but unfortunately I can't even get that far. All the usual things have been checked (drivers for via card uninstalled, tray half open, power cycle drive whilst sending intro command etc).

http://www.xboxhacker.net/index.php?topic=10217.0

This thread from here also seems to relate to the same series of drive:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=656999

Does anybody have any ideas as quite a few people seem to have come across these drives but there doesn't really seem to be any solution information available.

[iateshaggy]

did you try the benq unlock button?  usually works for me.

[Spark]

Yes I did, I tried that first as that is what I usually use unless there is a problem.