HITACHI 79 HELP - Have I bricked my drive?

[Astromine]

I had just hit the button "Send Mode-B" in JungleFlasher 1.90 and realized I didn't have "79_Unlock" burned to a CD. I then connected my internal burner via onboard SATA and scanned for hardware changes (it hasn't been hooked up as I've been using my iHAS124 yet I didn't have the iHAS connected at the time either). In the meantime JF has detected a new drive and here is the log:

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JungleFlasher 0.1.90 Beta (293)
Session Started Wed Dec 14 23:50:35 2011

This is a 32 bit process running on 2 x 32 bit CPUs
portio32.sys Driver Installed
portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !
Found 4 I/O Ports.
Found 1 Com Ports.
Found 4 windows drives A: C: D: G:
Found 0 CD/DVD drives

Drive is Hitachi.. 78/79
Drive is Hitachi.. 78/79
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Drive, answers normal Windows Inquiry 12 0 0 0 24 0
0000: 05 80 00 32 5B 00 00 00 - 48 4C 2D 44 54 2D 53 54 ...2[...HL-DT-ST
0010: 44 56 44 2D 52 4F 4D 20 - 47 44 52 33 31 32 30 4C DVD-ROM GDR3120L
0020: 30 30 37 39 0079

Mode-B Done!
New CD/DVD detected.
Found drive A: - Removable.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - Hard Drive.
Found drive E: - Removable.
Found drive F: - CD/DVD.
Found drive G: - Hard Drive.
No Hitachi drives were found!


Without noticing what JF had reported I ejected the drive and put the freshly burned 79_Unlock CD in my Hitachi and the drive ejects after a few seconds. The mechanics are fine on the drive so I know that isn't the problem.



Any suggestions??

::edit:: This will be my third Hitachi in 6 years that I've bricked, so hopefully someone has a solution to get me outta this mess.

 

[Dosk3n]

If your drives ejecting then its fine.

Just restart everything again.

Start jungleflasher - Hit send mode B - Let it find your drive - Once found insert you unlock CD (you may need to close windows media player if it opens) - Press unlock 79.

It will then unlock the drive and you go from there.

 

[Martin C]

I do this, if it's any consequence.

Connect the drive and eject the tray. Make sure JF can see it on 0x0000. I put the 79 unlock CD in at this point.

With the tray open, click Send Mode B, then click OK. The tray should close. Give it 5-10 secs then click unlock 79. From here it should be straightforward.

 

[Astromine]

Thanks for the help Martin & Dosk3n. I got everything figured out with the 79 now. Having problems with a 59dj now but I'll start another thread.