hey what chip set r u using? I couldn't get mine to work try turning ur computer on and booting into dos then turn the xbox on. that worked for me. if tha dose not, boot from dos then plug in the box it should work.but def try turning it on in the dos menu instead of the same time as pc lemme no how it turns out
ok you have to have a VIA ( thats a brand like intel) SATA(name of the plug in)chipset or PCI card for it to communicate with the 79. I think thats why your getting an error you can pick up a Via Sata PCI card for cheep. If you obtain that and it still does not work, make sure your using port one and you have the sata cable plugged in the opitical drive right?
To view the chipset try downloading CPU-Z you can google search it and download it, and see what it shows as your chipsetI bet ur using the wrong one
ya you need to get a VIA sata card thats why your computers not finding it becuase it cannot communicate with the xbox becuase its not VIA sata. go get that PCi card its cheep like 20 bucks good luck
Well you need Slax 2.1 to put a Hitachi into mode B, and your ICH* chipset should work fine. VIA chipsets don't work well with Hitachi drives. I guess what I meant was, use you primary SATA port, it might be labelled SATA 0. You may have to move your HDD over to SATA 1 or another available SATA port.
i am having something kinda the same. the only difference is that i can get my hitachi 0079fl into bmode and windows can see the drive and read from it but i can not dump the raw fw for the life of me. i have slax 2.1 i also have the 79 unlock program with the sound file that you have to play once all the way threw and then a quick play pause the second time around. i just dont see what i am doing wrong here. This is the tut i am using http://www.teamxmods.com/79-hitachi-flashing-without-a-passkey-tutorial/ and i am fallowing it to the T. still nothing. anyone have any ideas for me to get this to work the right way. i have used 3 different os' xp64 vista 32 and 64. thanks for anyone who can give me some insite on this problem i am having.
i have a via chipset pci card and have flashed loads of 79 drive using it,the only problem i had was with a 79FL that was a bugger to flash ( reading the firmware was ok but when using firmware toolbox 4.8 it would crash when trying to make the hacked firmware which i solved by just downloading the same version as a file got corrupted )
i was trying to use 4.0 but found there is a new one out 4.8 so been using that and still having major problems.