Post by: Pres on September 27, 2006, 08:26:00 PM
Mobo: MSI KT6 Delta FIS2R (6590)
Sata: Via 8237
Samsung TS-H943 ms25
Hitachi GDR-3120L 46DG
I purchased the Hitachi GDR-3120L 46DG hooked it up booted slax said modeb but the center light was not blinking. I tested it to see by pressing eject and it took 2 press's to close the tray which is supposed to be a sign of modeb. Reset the pc booted into windows and the drive was not in my computer or device manager. Tried this several times with no change. Drive was always recognized in bios.
Did not want to but I decided to try the cross wire trick so I went out and got some 1k resistors wired it all up, did my thing and bam center light was blinking (modeb). Again tested eject which took 2 press's to close again. Booted into windows which seemed to take longer to load up but again nothing in my comp. or device man. So i tried booting into safe mode and again nothing. Bios recognized it every time.
I am out of thoughts at the moment but the only other thing I can assume is that the used Hitachi may have already been tampered with and possibly bricked by the previous owner to begin with. If you guys could lend a helping hand in getting this sorted out I sure would appreciate it.
Post by: Textbook on September 27, 2006, 09:19:00 PM
Post by: runninamuck on February 03, 2020, 07:10:00 AM
On the other hand I got my bios to recognize the drive when plugged into my ECS 848P-A mother boards onboard SATA controller. Windows still would not see the drive.
The fix below worked and the drive flashed perfectly with the new 1.4 firmware. This fix was used with the 3120 plugged directly into my SATA controller on my mother board. I have yet to get the 6421 to work with Hitachi drives.
QUOTE(shadowth @ Jul 22 2007, 03:54 PM) 
It may be weird but, try this:
When your drive is off, manually eject it. Turn your 360 and PC on, run slax, reboot PC and go to Windows. DO NOT open the tray at any moment.
I had a problem with a Hitachi that I solved this way.
Thanks Shadowth