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New MessageHitachi boot disk error (modified 0 times) dizy
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Im sorry for posting such a widely posted subject. I have searched the site for the past 3 days trying anything and everything...with no luck

I bought this drive from ebay as being fully hacked exept without the ede cable ;/ Its supposedly the pregoo version with one of the imod kits. I decided to try and make my own cable by carefully connecting 1-2 3-4 etc.

The hitachi dk238a-43 drive works fine in the desktop. I created a primary active partition, and /s formated . On boot, it goes into dos withought a problem. I also copyd the win98 startup files on it.

Pluggin the drive into IO and went into bios... it detects the drive fine. But when booting, it gives the boot disk error. I tried letting it auto detect... i set it to manual norma, lba... still no luck... I tried disabling d: ... and tried playing aroudn with different boot orders like scsi, c, a and others.

I don't know what version of bios i have... it just sais SST MPF 39SF020 90-4c-nh 9952075-lpi

I remember reading some thread regarding some hitachi drives not having enough power from the io or something, how do i go around this if thats the case.

Please give some direction since the ebayer i got it from is a deadbeat and doesn't answer his emails

THanks
dizy@dizy.cc

11-10-2001 12:50:27

New MessageRE:Hitachi boot disk error (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil
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Looks like you bought a "v2" IOpener with its original crippled BIOS (dated 03/23/00 at the lower-left corner of your screen -- press Tab to see it when you start up the IOpener). The easiest fix is to swap the BIOS chip with a non-crippled one -- find a local IOpener hacker who could flash your chip for you, or contact BadFlash for commercial flashing services.

A slightly harder way to do this (but quite entertaining if you're into tinkering) is to get the "QNXFlash Sandisk Image". My public copy got corrupt, but Programmer has one at http://www.bethie.net/~programmer/v2_image_with_qnxflash102.gz

Copy the image onto your hard-drive using "dd" (in linux), or a Windows program called Dolly. Hook up the hard-disk as Primary Master. Start up, and press Ctrl-Alt-Esc to get into the BIOS Setup. Use a standard keyboard because you'll need an <ESC> key to navigate the BIOS Setup screens. Change "Standard CMOS Setup" -- set drive C to "None, None", and drive D to "490,2,65535,489,32,NORMAL". In "BIOS Features Setup", change the boot sequence to "D,A,SCSI". Save the settings, and restart the machine.

When you hear the male voice in the Introduction Screen, press Tab, then type 4444 and you'll find a black window with a QNX Login Prompt. Log in as "root", using the password "osiw$6.4" to get in. "cd app/ztest" will get you into the QNXFlash directory. "qnxflash -w bios_image_256k.bin" will flash an uncrippled BIOS image onto your BIOS chip. Reboot and enjoy.

11-10-2001 20:54:20

New MessageRE:Hitachi boot disk error (modified 0 times) dizy
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Thanx so much for such a thurow explanation.... I havn't seen such a good reply anywhere.... I will give it a shot tomorow morning and post how it went.

dizy

11-11-2001 23:16:49

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