HITACHI NON-79 Hitachi 78FK - permanent Status 0x80, bricked??

PeteZR1

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Hi guys,

Yesterday I tried to flash a Hitachi 78FK drive to iX LT+ 2.0 and I'm afraid it ended up bricked. However I wanted to double check with you before tossing away the DVD drive. For the record, I have a backup of both CPU & DVD keys.

First of all, there was no way to set b-mode thru JF on this drive. No matter I powered it up before booting up Windows or I did afterwards, my box froze in all cases. That's why I moved to 'old-school' techniques, that is, Slax + Maximus Toolbox.

It all went fine till I reached the point of clicking on "flash drive". Process started but never ended. Toolbox froze as well and after that, no matter what I do, the drive won't leave status 0x80, it won't eject either and my BIOS will never recognize it again.

Bricked Hitachi or is there anything I can still do? P.S: I always plug my drives to the motherboard using a CK3 Lite.

Many thanks in advance :)
 
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I'm assuming you weren't using a 360USBPro? The indication to stop would have been when you couldn't mode-B in JungleFlasher.

If this is a live box, how are you going to flash the replacement v78? Something to consider.

Recovery involves removing the TSOP and reflashing it on a programmer, just in case you were wondering.
 
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Martin C said:
I'm assuming you weren't using a 360USBPro? The indication to stop would have been when you couldn't mode-B in JungleFlasher.

If this is a live box, how are you going to flash the replacement v78? Something to consider.

Recovery involves removing the TSOP and reflashing it on a programmer, just in case you were wondering.
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That's correct Martin, I was not using a 360USBPro.

It's strange because I could flash this drive using Slax+Toolbox in the past successfully. Yesterday it was a total disaster.

If my only chances are replacing the whole v78 for going into Live or removing the TSOP to reflash & reprogram it, definitely I feel it's not worth it, I should move after a replacement as the box will very likely end up RGH'd.
 
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Martin C said:
What dashboard is it currently on?
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14699, still glitchable luckily.

Avinitlarge said:
If you are stuck and in the UK. Ive got a few 78 PCB's in my box of scrap drives.
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Sorry mate, Spain here.

BL4K3Y said:
A new PCB is useless without his drive key.

Of course, he could glitch the box to retrieve that if the dashboard version is lower than 1557x.
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I have all those, the problem is this DVD drive seems to be absolutely useless unless I do RGH on this console.

Thanks everybody for confirming my worst guessings :(
 
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Avinitlarge said:
Ive replaced a 78 and a 79 with a 46 and a 59. Both are used on live too. Don't know if its live safe but it works.
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I have a guy living nearby who has one of those drives but I tried to flash it in the past and it had exactly the opposite issue from mine: there was no way to make it leave mode-b and it only ejected by clicking that button in JF. Weird, it drove me crazy back in the day :crazy:
 
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