Will this technique break anything?

[santamaycry]

I have 4 onboard sata drives, I was curious if i could just plug the hitachi 47d into sata2, and turn the 360 on and run xtreme.bat from there? Will that work?

[Utter Chaos]

I have 4 onboard sata drives, I was curious if i could just plug the hitachi 47d into sata2, and turn the 360 on and run xtreme.bat from there? Will that work?

No this will not work. You're Hitachi has to be set to a special debug-mode (referred to as ModeB) to be recognized by the Windows OS. In the standard mode the drive won't response to the standard "Inquiry" command and therefore Windows doesn't recognize the device.

My suggestion: Search for one of the tutorials geebee made, it probably has all the answers you're looking for.

[santamaycry]

i have those tuts..but they dont cover my exact situation lol, they have hotswapping which would be the closest,except instead of 1 sata dvd player, i have 4 slots 3 are avaible to use.

[Utter Chaos]

i have those tuts..but they dont cover my exact situation lol

Only one way to find out: Try it!
As long as you don't to the crossed-wire trick chances are low you will break anything. Try to dump your original FW first before doing any flash attempts. See if that goes well. When you can read the FW you can also write it.

[santamaycry]

does xtreme.bat backup the firmware for me, or do i have to do the memdump_win

[Utter Chaos]

does xtreme.bat backup the firmware for me, or do i have to do the memdump_win

Use memdump:

memdump_win X 12200 8 8000 orig.bin

Note: X is the actual drive letter of your Hitachi drive

[santamaycry]

So before I do this, i just wanna make sure   

My pc is on
plug the dvd into sata2
video plug into xobx
power into xbox
power on xbox
run memdump.exe with memdump_win X 12200 8 8000 orig.bin parameters?

[santamaycry]

Oh goodies! the damned sata cable from the 360 doesn't reach the mobo, and if i swap it with the hdd one...the hdd wont reach..

[bradl3yj]

Of course the 360 sata cable isn't going to work, its like 4 inches long. Move your hard drive to be leaning against something at the bottom of your case close to the SATA ports so you can use the 360 SATA for the hard drive, then use the hard drive SATA for the 360.

You can use whatever SATA port you would like, but you still have to get the drive into modeb. So it should go something like this:

PC if OFF!
plug x360 dvd into sata2
make sure the xbox 360 dvd player is powered by the xbox 360
make sure video and power are connected to the 360
Power on the x360
get the drive into modeb (by crosswire, connectivity kit, or slax if slax works for you, you can also use another SATA DVD drive to do a hotswap with the x360 one)
power on computer (if not already on from putting drive into modeb)
run memdump