HITACHI 79 Hitachi V79 firmware

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I have a Hitachi v79 and the firmware is defiantly corrupt. I can still detect the drive in Jungle Flasher, but I'm not able to right the stock firmware back to the drive, due to JF says it can't determine the drive rev and then it aborts.

I know the firmware is corrupt and needs the original firmware written back to the drive. What app or what is the correct way to force write the original firmware back to the drive.

The drive is not bricked!!! JF detects the drive just find, but will not enable me to write to it due to aborting because it cannot identify the corrupt firmware.

Can someone help with a procedure to force writing the firmware back to the drive?

Thanks
 
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I don't have the log, it just references the firmware is corrupt...

What app or what is the correct way to force write the original firmware back to the drive.

Thanks.....
 
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JF says it can't determine the drive rev and then it aborts. I can detect it just fine, put it into b-mode and also unlock it.

I'm sure there is some app out there which will allow you to force write the firmware other then JF. JF has a lot of safty steps and when it can't tell the rev of the firmware it aborts for safty reasons.
 
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ive had afew problems before with hitachi 79 drives where jungleflasher has found the drive and will say it can all the way up to when u get to mode b, then it doesnt. but in mode b windows assagines a drive letter to the hitachi. does the hitachi have a drive letter where ur hard drive and any other drives show up if you click start/windows symbol and then computer?

just go as far as you can with the process in jungleflasher and save your log, then post it here, makes it alot easier to see problems.
 
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No, it assigned the drive okay. I went to device manager and found it just fine. It's not a problem with finding the drive; it's not able to write the firmware to it. It aborts, due to unidentified rev of the drive.
 
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and you have selected the right drive revision from the middle colum like the pic ive posted yeah? and the right drive from the dropdown box in the top right of jungleflasher under the hitachi tab?
 
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Hitachi are a pain in the A$$, IF not done right they will brick EZ

you can use( 360FW -Toolbox-48 ) you will find it on xbins its and old program by Maximus

it will force write the FW

force write CAN BRICK YOUR Hitachi
 
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I'll give it shot....

jim li said:
Hitachi are a pain in the A$$, IF not done right they will brick EZ

you can use( 360FW -Toolbox-48 ) you will find it on xbins its and old program by Maximus

it will force write the FW

force write CAN BRICK YOUR Hitachi
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hi try this bud this was done on a stuborn 79 hitachi useing usb pro and ck3.
connect all up start jf
(insert 79 unlock cd in hitachi)
open hitachi tray using ck3.
click send mode b on jf tray will close then spin unlock cd automatically.
now try to do what you wanted. ie revert to origional stock ect. hope this helps.
also you might have to switch to use port io option on jf if it doesent work first time.
 
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No Luck! I still can't get past the following:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JungleFlasher 0.1.90 Beta (292)
Session Started Wed Dec 07 10:13:04 2011
This is a 32 bit process running on 4 x 32 bit CPUs
portio32.sys Driver Installed
portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !
Found 4 I/O Ports.
Found 0 Com Ports.
Found 5 windows drives C: H: I: J: K:
Found 0 CD/DVD drives
Drive is Hitachi.. 78/79
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!
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.
No Hitachi drives were found!
Dumping f/w of Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method via WIN32 API
Scanning for hardware changes
New CD/DVD detected.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - CD/DVD. <--- Hitachi found
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.
Dumping f/w of Hitachi 0078/0079 by Ram Upload Method via WIN32 API
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Drive rev undetermined, Aborting!


I have tried tool box ver 4.8 and it just locks up.
iprep (no luck)


I know what happen, I was using tool box 4.8 to update the sectors to the 2.0 firmware and after the second sector it froze!!!!

Now I have this "Drive rev undetermined, Aborting!". Weird thing is the drive responds correctly in windows and in the XBOX. I still believe if I could just force write the orginal firmware back it would be just fine.

But that's how the old ball bounces......
 
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JungleFlasher 0.1.89 Beta (284)
Session Started Thu Dec 08 10:06:13 2011

This is a 32 bit process running on 4 x 32 bit CPUs
portio32.sys Driver Installed
portio32.sys Driver Started, thanks Schtrom !
Found 4 I/O Ports.
Found 0 Com Ports.
Found 5 windows drives C: H: I: J: K:
Found 0 CD/DVD drives

New CD/DVD detected.
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - CD/DVD. <--- Hitachi found
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.

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!
Found drive C: - Hard Drive.
Found drive D: - CD/DVD. <--- Hitachi found
Found drive H: - Removable.
Found drive I: - Removable.
Found drive J: - Removable.
Found drive K: - Removable.
Playing 79Unlock Audio CD
Pausing 79Unlock Audio CD, after 500mS
Ejecting 79Unlock Audio CD
Setting bit 3 @ 0x5BD
Executing code in Ram
Ram Execute command failed

---------- Post added at 23:26 ---------- Previous post was at 23:25 ----------

Does anyone know how to resolve the
"Ram Execute command failed" issue?
 
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