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Update: I bought a $15 Warmstor USB 2.0 Adapter (uses JMicron) from Amazon. (Kaos' original advice - thank you) I plugged in the drive to FATXplorer and it immediately recognized the drive it but said it couldn't use the master password to unlock. This was a bit surprising - it's a 1.0 xbox, is it a known issue that the master password doesn't work for some WD drives? I hooked the drive back up to the XBOX and did a hotsawp - it worked the first time, I was able to install Rocky5 Softmod on Partition 3 and then unmount in FATXporer and reboot in the XBOX, Softmod worked without hitch, nulled (all 1s) the EEPROM, Success! Lesson learned: Don't waste time trying to get the Innostor IS611 adapter to work, that thing just doesn't work right for IDE. @Kaos To answer your questions, just in case you are still curious. Yes, dev/sdb was the correct drive (physical drive 1), the order of the -d doesn't matter (I did try it both ways) and as I mentioned above, after flashing the -g security command started returning the status correctly for that drive. Side note: as I mentioned earlier the SATA side worked correctly (even before the firmware update) when I set up a 2TB drive (for an already softmodded xbox) using xboxhdm23usb and the command line tools to lock it (-d sat)). So it appears the IDE interface of the adapter/firmware has the issue - although it didn't matter much if the master password doesn't appear to work for this drive making hotswap he only way to do it, and that absolutely didn't work with this adapter.

Very noticeable. Night & day especially paired with an MClassic

Rename or delete your bootanims folder