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[samsoccer7]

Anyone tried the Optiarc?  I'm thinking of getting one.  Seems solid for XGD3, right?

[Elduderino]

I would like to know this also because am planning to buy 1 optiarc also

[samsoccer7]

Well, I bought an Optiarc anyway.  If you noticed Amazon going from 8 to 7 units left, it was me

Everything I looked up last night looked good.  Testing showed kprobe results to be very good.  I have old MMK001 Verbatims that I'll try this on.  The guys over at TX keep shutting down posts talking about the Optiarc which makes me believe it's a viable option.  If not, oh well, I'll go buy an ihasb on ebay.

[kbone213]

QUOTE(samsoccer7 @ Dec 5 2012, 01:50 PM)

Well, I bought an Optiarc anyway.  If you noticed Amazon going from 8 to 7 units left, it was me

Everything I looked up last night looked good.  Testing showed kprobe results to be very good.  I have old MMK001 Verbatims that I'll try this on.  The guys over at TX keep shutting down posts talking about the Optiarc which makes me believe it's a viable option.  If not, oh well, I'll go buy an ihasb on ebay.

I also bought one, but from newegg instead. I agree with your point about TX. Also, no more ihas rev b's on ebay that I could find. The guy that listed it for an insane price probably has none left (the overpricing thing has been trending on ebay with sellers that run out).

I personally think it's pretty disgusting how so few people seem to be trying to find a reliable alternative to a product that has been discontinued for about 9 months. Also disappointed in anyone that says something along the lines of "just go buy an ihas". Sure, I'll do that when you can go buy a living velociraptor.

[kbone213]

Yep, Sony Optiarc works. No firmware mods, everything works fine.

[Kidology]

Glad to see its working out for you guys

[dangerouseddy]

pity you cant crossflash the ad5280s-0b to the ad5280s-cb -plus version since they use the same hardware afaik.

if anybody finds a shop in europe selling Sony Optiarc 5280S-CB-PLUS drop me a pm.

[pctek]

last night I crossed flashed and so far it was successful no errors or anything. Its a HP dvd1270 this is on the front plate of the drive, but when I went to device manager before flashing it I think that where I went cant remember now, anyways it had a "t" after the numbers so like this: hp dvd1270t

So anyways I say flock it Im just gonna flash it with the ihas 124b firmware and see what happens and it all was a success no errors or stopping during flashing progress. Anyone know for sure this 1270t drive infact is a rebadged ihas? thanks

[hardie]

7062388983'>

QUOTE(pctek @ Dec 13 2012, 04:15 AM)

last night I crossed flashed and so far it was successful no errors or anything. Its a HP dvd1270 this is on the front plate of the drive, but when I went to device manager before flashing it I think that where I went cant remember now, anyways it had a "t" after the numbers so like this: hp dvd1270t

So anyways I say flock it Im just gonna flash it with the ihas 124b firmware and see what happens and it all was a success no errors or stopping during flashing progress. Anyone know for sure this 1270t drive infact is a rebadged ihas? thanks

The following drive models are confirmed capable of being cross-flashed with c4eva's iXtreme Burner MAX firmware:
 
ASUS
 DRW-24B3LT*
 DRW-24B3ST*
 DRW-24B1LT*
 DRW-24B1ST*
 
Dell
 PLDS DH-16ABS
 
HP
 DVD1270i*
 DVD1260i*
 
Lite-On
 iHAS122*
 iHAS322* (thanks to Hasham, Risay, and Kingston for confirming)
 DH-16ABSH11B (thanks to Charles for confirming)
 
Plextor
 PX-L890SA
 
TEAC
 DV-W524GSB

[pctek]

7062388997'>OK so i have the memorex dvd dl and I whenever trying to burn gow3 xgd3 it kept stopping around 50% with i/o error. So I flash the ihas 124b drive with that media code speed edit, to make the drive think the memorex are the vermatin or what ever it does, so I can burn at 2.4x.

So i did this flash and finally gow3 burn went successfully 100% no errors, so i pop in the phat Hitachi flashed 59 360 and everything was beautifully it read it and loaded it it seem little tad slow or the drive was struggling a little maybe but..... ok so i fire up a new campaign and the intro cut scene when that lady starts talking to marcus all the in-game textures are not loaded its like washed out.

Anyone know whats up, do i need to tweak some settings in imgburn for burning process or what? Heres the guide and imgburn settings i used to burn this game thanks

[xboxdawg]

7062389145'>Has anyone else tried the Sony Optiarc drive?

Looking for an alternative for the ihas drives for my friend.

Also does the ASUS DRW-24B3ST still work? Are the ones they selling now the correct firmware revision or do you have to find an older one?

XBD

This post has been edited by xboxdawg: Dec 16 2012, 06:25 AM

[Takashi]

7062389772'>DH-16ABSH-HT2 From January 2012, using same tried and true method for 75+ drives now, causes it to blink incessantly and not eject. stock fw is YHDF.
I can flash back and run convert with eeprom utility to repair it back to stock, but what's the fun in that?

PS: 2011 and earlier, perfect.

This post has been edited by Takashi: Dec 31 2012, 10:47 AM

[xboxdawg]

7062390576'>Still looking for an answer on the Sony Optiarc drives and the ASUS.

Thanks

[dougiegillam]

QUOTE(xboxdawg @ Jan 17 2013, 10:30 PM)

Still looking for an answer on the Sony Optiarc drives and the ASUS.

Thanks

You do have other options other than the Sony Optiarc, you could use the recently released payload tool by teamX. Below is a link to the drives confirmed working/not working so far. There may be other drives that work its worth doing a search to find out.

I haven't used the Payload tool myself as i have an ihas drive but i will give it a try with my pioneer 219 the next time i burn an XG3 backup and post the results.

http://www.ixtreme.n...ility-list.html

[zak7]

7062398837'>the PLDS DVDRW DH16ACSH (JL3A firmware) works out of the box with the payload, burning XGD3 works fine.

Its a rebadge of the liteon iHAS124-04C, MT1809LN chipset, while the D also has this revision, the DH16ACSH's buffer is 1.5MB while the rev.D is less then that, at almost 1MB.

currently working on crossflashing this drive to 124-04C iHAS firmware, just trying to find a dump of the firmware/eeprom right now (you'll need to dump the firmware using DOSFlash though, so if your interested in helping me out with either of those, and have portio installed, let me know. you can dump the eeprom using eeprom utility 6.2 or LtnFlash 2.6.11...