Sammy MS25, ixtreme 1.2c, VIA VT6421

iguy

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Feb 19, 2003
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Hi all,

Good job on the tutorials and all the great info. I've been reading for days and I was able to flash my sammy MS25 with a VIA VT6421 sata card. I sucessfully flashed ixtreme 1.2c and can sucessfully play my backup game disk. The ixtreme 1.2c is the only flash ever done. Now I want to try to make a game backup disk, but i'm a little confused. When I did the 1.2c flash, I followed the MS25 update instructions. I believe it did ask to spoof my drive to a MS28 and i said (Y) just like the tutorial stated and everything went smooth and works great.

Finally.... my question.
Since i have never done any other update other than 1.2c, do I have to use a 0800 disk with my VIA VT6421 (i tried VIA driver versions 5.20 & 5.40 & 5.50)? Windows currently doesn't see my sammy MS25. The drive was definatley affecting WinXP, because it would freeze for 1-2 min, then unfreeze for a minute then freeze again and kept happening. I admit i was only patient a couple of times for 5 or 6 minutes each time, then shutdown and came back to the forums to search and read.
 

mmaverick

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Dec 7, 2002
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and the disc is for the v28 drives to disable the firmguard (i believe...) instead of bad flash method....
 

iguy

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Feb 19, 2003
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Sorry for the confusion. I'm not trying to flash the drive. I have alrerady flashed it. I want to backup my game. To do this, I use XBC, correct? But i have to read the game disk from my sammy drive somehow. That's what i thought the 0800 disk or the VIA VT6421 was also used for.