Killian's Concept 3
Flashing Hitachi GDR-3120L v79

WARNING: Do not attempt to flash your Hitachi drive with this method UNLESS IT IS A V79. You can tell which ROM version you have by the labeling on the drive. v78 will be covered in Concept 3.2.

Overview
Welcome to my latest tutorial describing the process of flashing the Hitachi drive. Hitachi drives are completely unique in the way and which they are modded. We modify Hitachis on a sector by sector basis. For this to happen the drive must be in Mode-B (mode-b allows Windows to recognize the drive!). There are several transfer methods available (some only to certain revisions), but ROM upload can be used for all drives.




Step 1: Setting Mode-B

Connect your Hitachi the same way as described in Concept 1, 2, and 2.5 (via SATA) and power it on. Start JungleFlasher and head on over to the Hitachi GDR 3120 tab.




You should see this:




(Note how the Hitachi inquires on my I/O Port and that PortIO is disabled using a Non-VIA chip.)




The drive needs to inquire on I/O port for Raw ModeB Commands to work (this applies to
spoofed drives also). Once it inquires, Click send ModeB, you will be presented with the following message, its preferred you do as it states, as the ModeB built in on some Connectivity Kits, can cause issues.




Once done, click OK. The drive should now report in Mode-B.






WinAPI users should see similar to this under the ‘Drive’ section




If not, click Refresh List. JungleFlasher WILL NOT scan for Hardware Changes after setting ModeB for PortIO users. The Drive will NOT appear in drive list on right hand side!
Instead, the tasks are carried out, as long as the drive Inquires on the I / O Port.




The Hitachi v79 requires ‘unlocking’ via Audio CD which the download link can be found at the bottom of the tutorial. Burn the .bin, using the cue sheet in IMGBurn (done by right clicking .cue file and selecting “burn with imgburn”) and write to CD-R. Insert the disc into the Hitachi v79, wait for it to spin up (windows media player may try to open! - just close it) then click 79 unlock.




After a few moments, JungleFlasher should show a log similar to the one below.




Now, onto dumping the drive. With the V79 unlocked, or the v78 in ModeB We can now dump the drive using RAM Upload method.





Click "Read to Source."





JungleFlasher will now dump the drive using RAM Upload Method





It should then prompt you to save the firmware.





Once saved, it will open it as Source in FirmwareTool32.




Flashing the v79


With the drive in Mode-B (and Unlocked if a v79) simply select Flash iXtreme from the Flashing Options list.





Then click Flash Hack f/w





JungleFlasher will then dump the drive and compare what sectors that need to be written.





JF will then prompt you to save. DO IT.
JungleFlasher will seemingly take control, don’t worry, this is normal.
If you view the log, you see that JungleFlasher has automatically loaded iXtreme 1.51, copied all your data (key sector 90004000 isn’t touched) into iXtreme, and flashed a test sector forstability.
The stability test should return as stable, if so, you will see this message.




Again, JungleFlasher will take control. You will see it flashing sectors like below:




It will begin to verify and report back success/failure.





YOU ARE FINISHED. Disconnect, reassemble your console, and play your burned games!