want to unlock the rip speed with omnipatcher. thank you
the only way to do it is to flash the original firmware to the drive, then dump the firmware and use the bin through omnipatcher and then reflash the bin to the drive
how do i do that? i know about using omniflasher but have never dumped a firmware, what program do i use for that?
when you say dump do you mean back up the firmware to the hard drive? is that what LtnFW does? sorry for being a noob 
if i am reading it right i can not use that one as it uses xflash. how do i extract the file and what program do i use? i have flashed the drive with the new firmware. now what?
well i figured out how to back the firmware up but now omniflasher is telling it doesn’t recognize the firmware and is aborting, any idea why?
have you got the latest omnipatcher? it works fine as i have done it
yes it is the latest one. you have the same drive as me?
i do, the bin file you have, what is the size?
1kb, which i believe is wrong. i backed the firmware up twice and got the same results.
should be 512kb, use the flash utility from the codeguys, top one
sent, lets know how you go 
success, do not know what i was doing wrong but the one you sent worked perfectly and i was able to unlock the rip speed of the drive. thank you for helping