Hi all,
I am having some difficulties when unlocking the MMCS HDD. I have version 30.99 and wanted to try and downgrade to 30.94 like some others had successfully done here.
I was able to get the HDD unlocked (sort of), but had some trouble copying files off of it. From what I had read from those that did downgrade successfully, I am supposed to replace the ALLDATA.KWI in the HDD partition and the LOADING.KWI in the HDD3 partition with the original ones for 30.94, which I found on rcotsin's site:
http://www.deltainfo.ro/manuals/mitsu/outlander/ ... specifically
Outlander CD, NR261-UM, Software version Version 00.30.94, original version. I had planned on saving the original 30.99 ones from my HDD and was able to copy off the ALLDATA.KWI ok, but the LOADING.KWI file would not move. I tried in Windows XP and 7 and Ubuntu and using the Isolinux boot disk...in Windows it says that the file is corrupt and in Linux I get an Input/Output error. Not sure if I unlocked it wrong. Anyway, I managed to change the name of the LOADING.KWI file using Isolinux only and then I added the other version on. I saved off my original ALLDATA.KWI and added the other version as well as the other LOADING.KWI to the HDD partition. Put drive back in MMCS and version hadn't changed but everything else was working normally. Tried disconnecting battery for a couple minutes but this didn't change anything either. I brought drive in and tried again. Since then, I have not been able to get anything working in the car as normal...even putting stuff back to original files. Not sure exactly where I messed up ... some bad things I might have done are trying to lock the drive and then unlock it again using the Isolinux xbox tool and also I might have inadvertently removed hidden files from the HDD2 partition...this partition is 124 MB but seems to be empty...not sure if there was anything in it originally. So, when putting original files back on drive and putting back in car, I got an error message saying "Program writing error. Turn the engine key off to retry". When putting the other files back on or the ones from
Outlander Update CD, NR261-UM, Software version Version 00.30.94, DVD in motion allowed I just get a blank black screen.
The drive is no longer being locked by MMCS. This I imagine is the main problem, but I am not sure what caused it and more importantly, how to resolve the issue. I was hoping someone had some insight or suggestions to try. Maybe I had screwed up from the get go when unlocking the drive because of the issue I was having with removing the original LOADING.KWI from HDD3. One thing I was uncertain of was the exact syntax of the unlock key. From the 1st page of the unlock HDD thread, it mentions that the key is:
b2bab3bcb0dfacbeb1bbbedfb1add2cdc9ceaab2dfb19e8996 dfaa8c9a8ddfdf
I was uncertain whether or not the space was intended to be used or not. Usually in linux, the arguments to a command are space delimited, so I figured a space was not supposed to be used, so the exact syntax I used was:
unlockhd -p b2bab3bcb0dfacbeb1bbbedfb1add2cdc9ceaab2dfb19e8996 dfaa8c9a8ddfdf
So, did I do something wrong here? It did unlock as I was able to run fdisk -l to see the partitions ... but maybe I only partially did it. Also, in a later post from Otaku, he mentioned an alternative key for the last part:
B2BAB3BCB0DFACBEB1BBBEDFB1ADD2CDC9CEAAB2DFB19E8996 DFB29E8C8B9A8D
so I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be used instead (again, I would have thought no space).
Any help would be greatly appreciated...sorry for the long post. Thanks much.
~ Jay
edit: that's odd...when typing the key I used after the "unlock -p", I did not type a space but one was added when the post was made...maybe some sort of letter limit per word???