anyone else bricked their drive trying the wire trick?

[soulfury]

I'm 90% I owned this drive when I tried the wire trick.  The 360 boots but it refuses to open the tray, it thinks its opening it.  I suppose the drive is hosed.  Do any of you experts know if I sort of broke the connector on the pin 0 wire if the drive would still show up on my pc's bios but not respond to eject commands?  I wonder if not having pin 0 connected is why the 360 cant eject it or if I've just bricked it.

--sf

[cjack]

Same problem here! The only thing that does not work is the eject because if I open the tray manually and insert a game it boots perfectly!

[hopeful]

My sincere question is:
Why do people rush instead of getting a 1k-ohm resistor, which the faqs suggest for added safety.
(You can easily locate this at radioshack)
By pressing this between the two wires as teh contact, you prevent reckless shock from busting your drive.
I would think a 500 dollar investment would be worth taking the added safety percautions.

[zillionare]

Pin 0 is from a bad cross-reference pic.

What your doing is connecting pin 12 to 3 in the right guide

Pin 12 is +12 VDC and Pin 3 is Open/Close!

There is no Pin 0 look under your board and the numbers are all there except 1,2,3,5,7, and 9.

should be   11     9    7    5      3     1
                 G     G    G    G    O/C   NC
 
                12    10   8    6      4     2
              +12  +12  +5  +3.3  TS   NC

This confusion had bricked a lot of drives.

Done correctly pin 4 = Tray/Status shorted briefly to any of these 5,7,9 or 11 all the same ground should work. I would still use a resistor as a precaution.

So if the pin 0 is no longer working (actually pin 12) you probally fried the +12vdc. 

hope all this info is correct and helps.

peace
zil

[Solo]

Apart from a new PCB for the drive is there anyway of fixing this problem?
Could you take the +12vdc from somewhere else on the board via a soldered wire etc?

Alot of people have made this mistake  , is there really no way of fixing it?

Cheers,

Solo

[buzzar]

Why not use a connectivity kit for £16/$20 with vertually NO chance of bricking/damaging ODD close/eject pcb?
So you're thinkin I'll do this on the cheap with a 1 cent peace of wire  and you stuff up your ODD not clever i'm thinkin???