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Offline batmandk

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Neither drive works in Phatbox after hack - help
« on: June 29, 2006, 08:51:25 pm »
Ran the boot cd - followed the instructions on the image heavy thread to the letter.
Placed original hacked cartridge in the phatbox - got the message "your phatbox is unlocked" - swapped drives and copied data to new cartridge - put it in the phatbox - no disk shown immediately on head unit.
Put original disc back in - put into phatbox - no disk shown on head unit.

Phatbox shows steady red led and constantly flashing green.

Was running latest VW firmware. have tried reloading firmware on original drive - same error.
Tried deleting forceupdate from PHTSYS - same error.
Tried loading kenwood keg firmware same error.

Have I screwed the whole thing or am I able to buy a new dms cartridge and try again?

Offline judb

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Re: Neither drive works in Phatbox after hack - he
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2006, 09:58:57 pm »
the hack didn't complete.  you'll need the original dms drive and do the ramdisk.sig corrupt trick.. (search for it I've typed it a hundred times already) to make it work.  the patch should run again when the drive boots correctly and then the new DMS should go to working as well.

Offline batmandk

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Re: Neither drive works in Phatbox after hack - he
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2006, 10:51:20 pm »
Thanks judb,

I had found something about corrupting the ramdisk.sig file but didn't see the bit about repeating the patch.

Will try again tomorrow.

Thanks again.

Offline batmandk

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Re: Neither drive works in Phatbox after hack - he
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2006, 06:10:42 am »
Corrupted ramdisk.sig
Reapplied Patch
Left in Phatbox with green led flashing
Patch complete - both drives now working in Phatbox.

Thanks Judb, fix worked exactly as described.

Cheers.

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