I've a stock Lite-On dvd drive (74850) and i wont dump a full stock firmware with MRA hack before flashing.
But i've a problem to send the drive in vendor mode (0x72 status). With the switch in OFF position the drive is recognized good by jungleflasher, but in ON position (22 ohm resistor to ground) i receive 0x80 status ever.
I followed the official Jungleflasher guide: Power on the drive in OFF mode (properties ok), power off the drive and switch to ON mode, click Intro, then yes and power on the drive: 0x80
I tryed with 20, 18, 15 ohm resistor also, but 0x80 ever.
All soldering and cuts are good, i tested its with a multimeter.

Before to attempt the MRA hack, i successfully obtained dummy.bin with the RS232 probe.

What's wrong? Which is the cause of the 0x80 status?

Why are you trying to use the MRA hack?

Are you obtaining calibration data? If you're not, why not just use the standard probing method.

Yes, for Calibration Data

Its worthless, rebuild your traces and use your dummy.

Ok, maybe useless, but why dont work?

take a picture of your soldering, 99% of people that say they soldered perfect have more shorts than a midget wrestling league.

I gave up to trying! I flashed the drive with standard method without calibration data.

Below the picture:


There is no short. However it's not the first time that i use a soldering iron...

Wow, you really tore into your trace there. Overall, I'd have to say thats very good solder work for having never used a soldering iron before. I've had alot of the same issues with the 74850 Drives, I've only been able to dump the cal data of one, and the other one didn't have anything on it.

I find soldering jumpers directly the the traces are pretty iffy. Worst comes to worst just use a LT switch or a PCB rebuild board, those seem to work fine for me.

lt switches are garbage. all he has to do is learn more proper ways to solder the wires to the traces. most the soldering did look descent, but the way he his wires are going into the trace at a 90 degree angle is asking for trouble.

Been out of the loop for a while on the calibration thing.

Is there new info to suggest that we don't need a full dump?

If Oggy says it's worthless then that's good enough for me.

I still do all v7 with probe, v8-1 with lo83info and the rest by boxxdr...never had an issue yet.