I did a lot of forum reading before posting this question, i tried everything i could think of and just about every method posted in this forum and others. I am yet to have success with my hitachi 78fk (sep. 06 build) flashing.
I tried the onboard sata on my pc with chipset vt8237r, another with vt8237, and another pc with 8235cd chipset. They are all no go. None of them even detect the hitachi in bios.
I bought the popluar via 6421a pci sata card, failure to detect the hitachi as well. So i grabbed a sil3512 sata at compusa because of a post i read before. The individual who wrote claimed he could put his hitachi 78fk in mode b using sil3512 and that he would proceed to hotswap the hitachi which would be in mode b, to a 6412a card and finally successful flash. The first part worked for me as well, i could easily put the hitachi in mode b using slax (both 2.0 and 2.1 worked fine) with the sil3512. But still had no luck with the 6421a even with the drive in mode b. The bios didn't detect it, neither was it recognized in windows environment. I tried it in safe mode, tried new drivers and old drivers, hotwap sata in windows, hotswap when pc off and fresh boot, but i'd still get the yellow exclamation in the device manager no matter what. By the way, the ejecting in windows loading bar, i do implement that.
I have read about those few hitachi 78fks that won't flash no matter what, i'm beginning to think mine is one of them. If anyone had similar experience with the 78fk or if anyone could think of different ways of flashing it, some fresh input would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading.
I tried the onboard sata on my pc with chipset vt8237r, another with vt8237, and another pc with 8235cd chipset. They are all no go. None of them even detect the hitachi in bios.
I bought the popluar via 6421a pci sata card, failure to detect the hitachi as well. So i grabbed a sil3512 sata at compusa because of a post i read before. The individual who wrote claimed he could put his hitachi 78fk in mode b using sil3512 and that he would proceed to hotswap the hitachi which would be in mode b, to a 6412a card and finally successful flash. The first part worked for me as well, i could easily put the hitachi in mode b using slax (both 2.0 and 2.1 worked fine) with the sil3512. But still had no luck with the 6421a even with the drive in mode b. The bios didn't detect it, neither was it recognized in windows environment. I tried it in safe mode, tried new drivers and old drivers, hotwap sata in windows, hotswap when pc off and fresh boot, but i'd still get the yellow exclamation in the device manager no matter what. By the way, the ejecting in windows loading bar, i do implement that.
I have read about those few hitachi 78fks that won't flash no matter what, i'm beginning to think mine is one of them. If anyone had similar experience with the 78fk or if anyone could think of different ways of flashing it, some fresh input would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading.