Soft Unlock For The Hitachi FL79 (no passkey needed)

Good News!!!!! ****By Podger*** Not quiet a soft unlock but close enough Turorial: 1. Unrar the file 2. Burn the CD Image, I used ImgBurn.... 3. Put 79 in Mode B 3. Insert the CD in the 79 and play the track, wait for it to finish... 4. Then press play again and straight away pause it, you should hear some noise 5. Eject the disk, using the eject button not the PC ( it does something different) 6. Run the the command in a command window 79Unlock h // where h is the drive letter of the 79 // this will error regardless, ignore the error 7. If all went well bit 4 of (0x5BD) should be set and the drive should be unlocked 8. Drive will dump and flash with Toolbox... 9. This is a tempory unlock, (0x5BD) is in RAM and would need to be done each time you power the drive, although I've posted how to by pass this with the drive unlocked with a passkey..... 10. Has not been extensively tested but worked on 6 drives to day so far... Thanks to OggyUK, mp3boy, Antman1 with the testing.... Also RKO Pheonix needs a mention as he unwittingly leant his 360 to Oggy today.... and Seventhson for the help early on and his fabulous blog

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udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

_BlackDragon (2008-08-03)

You can only put the 79 in mode b with a passkey
So your tutorial makes no sense

cisko550 (2008-08-03)

yes you can with slax and a VIA chipset or nforce any possibility of others.
Try it before you open your mouth.

sshugo (2008-08-04)

No, the 79 must have the passkey. Only the 78 can be put in modeb with slax. This is most likely a virus, since it would have been news on x-scene.

sshugo (2008-08-04)

Wow now I feel dumb. Its was just posted today. Very cool app, thanks cisko550.

cisko550 (2008-08-08)

Nothing but leechers on this site, ive upload this over 500 times and i am still the only seeder, i know the file is tiny, but its the point of it all.

sarconwindsong2002 (2009-03-12)

for all those still trying to download this go and get it there