Using HL3120 drive with linux and plscsi

[probutus]

UPDATE:

I did some homework and created an update to the slax-livecd...

It now starts up perfectly (without the millions of errors; I found the cause: it was related to compressed modules in the ramdisk and a wrong ramdisk size)
and it includes:

1) the ide-cd patch (for the TS and the 3120 drive to be recognized)
2) support for native sata connection over the 3112 and 3114 (the 3114 only 2 ports working, still did NOT find the cause...)
3) *NEW* the modified usb-storage driver which lets you connect ALL xbox related dvd drives via a usb/ide or usb/sata converter (see the post from MacDennis "Using the 3120 drive in linux and windows the plug and play way)

4) The already uploaded tool- mo packages are still compatible and can be included into the ISO like already described

5) I will post the link as soon as the upload is finished (I currently have an upload rate of 6KB/s so this could take a while for all 53 MB)

BTW: Can anyone please post the identify string of a 8050 drive? I can update the ide-cd driver then...

[probutus]

can't edit my own post currently 

Here's the link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/18669520/live-cd.iso.html

NOTE: This link does not contain the 8050 patch yet... I will upload a new kernel file later on...

[probutus]

*** ATTENTION ***

The iso image above does NOT work for xbox drives connected via sata, ide or ide->sata adapter... There was a small glitch inside ide-cd.c

SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIANCE...

I fixed the bug and added support for the 8050L drive (I could not test it since I do not own one...)

http://rapidshare.de/files/18684918/live-cd.iso.html

[evestu]

Thank you  probutus

i will try with 8050 as soon as mine turns up

 

[patx]

Great work thankx !!!

[probutus]

Oh, I have to thank you for thei ident-stirng, patx
Can you please test if the 8050 drive is recognized by the kernel? I do not own one, I just inserted your string "blind" into the driver...

[warezbabe]

Hi guys!
I'm trying to detect my xbox360 HL3120 on my native sata connection (nforce4 chipset, using the nv_sata module).
If you can, help me understanding what to patch on the nv_sata module to make it correctly detect the HL3120. Now, when i run Mandrive (or other recent Live Linux), i only see many errors regarding the sata attacched and detached device. I imagine that's what is needed to be patch, isnt?

Anyway, if you can share with me what you changed into your siimage.c i can make the same on my nv_sata.c and test all the stuff on my machine.

Bye!

[probutus]

Hi,

the only thing you have to find the position where the first inquiry is sent to the dvd-drive; then you have to fake the answer; if you take my pieces of source above and compare them with the original versions you can see that it's always exactly the same (with siimage.c, the sata library, the ide-cd driver and finally the usb driver).

I suppose you use the libata driver with your nvidia device; do you see a kernel oops on startup (and spurious interrupts?) These spurious interrupts prevented me to make a clean version for all sata drives since my sil3112/sil3114 has severe problems regarding interrupts..

[Slack3er]

Mod's I'm really sorry, this post is really off-topic, you have my permission to delete, if needed.

First I'd like to say, congrads on everyones work and a farewell/goodbye from me. I have accepted a position at a mining site, so I'll be gone for sometime. So you won't see me on here much, if anyone really cares, lol(I'm staying in a camp, with no internet connection)...  I was really looking forward to testing probutus patches, learning to assemble the lg fw with the toolchain, and helping out in whatever way I could, but I just won't have the time now. I'll be in slacking around, when if possible. Thanks for everyones help, I've learned so much from everyone and can't stress that enough. The members of this board has really shown TRUE professionalism, I wish you all the best... 

Probutus@ I would have liked to try to help you figure out how to assemble the 0046/0046 fw using the MN103 toolchain, but won't have the time. I'm leaving ASAP...  You may have already figured it out, I don't know.... I was thinking we could copy the output from objdump into OpenOffice.Org Calc(SpreadSheet), that way we could easily delete the unneeded output, ex. hex and memory locations easiilty. Than only the MN103 code will be lefted. (Could this be the reason the fw you compiled was different, I don't know...)When assembling the fw with MN103-ELF-AS, I'm thinking the fw will be converted into the ELF format, we need it into the true binary format. So we could use MN103-ELF-OBJCOPY, to strip the elf format from the image. I could be wrong, but if interested read this link...

The file hal/common/current/src/stubrom  will be an ELF format executable of the ROM image. Use mn10300-elf-objcopy to convert this to the appropriate format for loading into the Matsu$#!ta FLASH ROM programmer, mode “binary” in this case:

http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/setup-am33-stb.html

Dzgx216@ Good luck with your experiments, I'm sure you'll kick ass. 

Fine Regards;
Slackware/XFCE User

[probutus]

Hi slack3er,

sorry to hear that you're leaving; It's always nice to have a friend,
I wish you good luck and all the best in your new job; keep the good times rollin!

Probutus

[Dzgx216]

Slack3r,

   You rock man.  You'll be missed.  I'd be a few light-years behind right now if it weren't for you/probutus.  I hope the job goes well for you.  When you pop back in sometime, I'm hoping to have some good results for you to hear about / see.  Keep canada rockin'!!

[sentinel0]

can i use that live disk to get my key?  I have a Promise native sata controller actualy I would like to load into a live linux use kev.nu modeB tool and reboot into windows and have access to my lg.  Is this possible?

[Dzgx216]

Sentinel,

  You can always try.  Just download the SLAX  ISO, burn it off, boot from the CD-rom, and reboot into windows.  You shouldn't even need the ModeB tool because the boot sequence on the slax ISO sends the HIT command to the drive.  Give it a go and see what happens!! (Remember to power the drive from the 360 and to croc-clip the chassis of the 360 to the chassis of the PC to achieve a true-earth ground.

[probutus]

Hi Sentinel,

you can try but if the iso works depends on 2 issues

1) you can put your sata ports to legacy ide mode then the ide-cd patch will work
2) if the controller uses the siimage driver from the live iso

Can you please PM me your dmesg output? I can have a look then...

@Warezbabe: I can have a look for you, I just need your dmesg output..

AND: If you add the two .mo files as described earlier in this thread you can even plug in a usb stick and dump the key right from there.. with SeventhSons hitachi-debug technique...

[sindri1980]

Hi all! This is my first post here, although i´ve been reading you for a long time.
Well, I´m just tryng to get my 3120L drive recognized by Windows. I´m totally new to Linux and Ubuntu so all the tutorials are a still quite confusing to me. Anyway, I tried to use the LiveCD that Protubus gently uploaded, but after a few tests, I can´t get Linux nor Windows to recognize my drive using the USB2 - SATA adapter. I´m probably doing something wrong..:

1.- I connect the adapter to the 3120L drive.
2.- I power the drive on from the Xbox360 console.
3.- Connect the USB2 plug to the computer.
4.- Boot the LiveCD and, after all the process is done, I reboot to Windows without powering off the drive.

Maybe I´m missing a step or something, could somebody help me, please? Thanks in advance!

[probutus]

to use a usb adapter with the drive you have to tell the usb-storage module which device it has to patch (since there are a lot of different product_ids and vendor_ids out)

so do the following:
1) attach adapter and do a lsusb and note the product and vendor id of the usb adapter
2) reboot the machine WITHOUT the usb adapter plugged in
3) login as root and do a "modprobe usb-storage fix_inq_vendor_id=0xYOUR_VENDOR_ID_IN_HEX_HERE fix_inq_product_id=0xYOUR_PRODUCT_ID_IN_HEX_HERE
4) plug in the usb adapter and the drive
5) if you like you can now execute modeB (from kev.nu) restart the system and use the drive in your standard linux or even window$

[probutus]

I just created an update for the 360_dvd_base package (it now includes modeb which was formerly missing SORRY)

with the new v2 package it is included in /usr/local/bin/modeb please use it INSTEAD the old one

http://rapidshare.de/files/20449230/360_dvd_base_v2.mo.html

[lithiumC]

So this is a newer version of the your LIVE CD right with modeb included? I am also wondering if this version supporst the PATA to SATA adapters?

[probutus]

Hi lithiumC,

you need to grab 2 things:
1) the live-cd.iso file (see above) (the bare live-cd)
2)the 360_dvd_base_v2.mo file (additional tools package)

then put the mo file into the modules directory of the live-cd and burn it

The live cd supports

1) si3112 and si3114 adapters via native sata
2) connecting the drive via usb (then you have to apply modeb manually)
3) drive connected via sata/pata adapter (modeb already included; no need to do this manually)

Edit: modeb only works for hitachi drives since the samsung does not support this
but the livecd can handle:
-HL-8050L
-HL-3120L
-TS-943A

[Da Mafia]

Hi lithiumC,

you need to grab 2 things:
1) the live-cd.iso file (see above) (the bare live-cd)
2)the 360_dvd_base_v2.mo file (additional tools package)

then put the mo file into the modules directory of the live-cd and burn it

The live cd supports

1) si3112 and si3114 adapters via native sata
2) connecting the drive via usb (then you have to apply modeb manually)
3) drive connected via sata/pata adapter (modeb already included; no need to do this manually)

Edit: modeb only works for hitachi drives since the samsung does not support this
but the livecd can handle:
-HL-8050L
-HL-3120L
-TS-943A

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to add support for NForce 4 chipsets