I bought two of these back in 2010... Along with an internal one. (Also DEV type) The two I used first worked fine (well mostly), the internal one can use the HDD OSD fine and utility discs but it can't do DNAS stuff (Device ID fields are BLANK -_- ... The external one works fine, install retail games and is doing great. But the third external drive was a "kick in the nuts" as it does EVERYTHING but load the HDD OSD. After a serious analysis of the HDD I found it has six bad blocks on the UBA (firmware) area, in the exact segments of the firmware related to the process of authentication the HDD OSD software uses to boot. Because these drives (the external ones of course) are intended to be used with the DTL-T10000 and these supposedly can't run the HDD OSD they felt it was ok to ship the drive in this state ... :shrug: So SONY was selling faulty drives that weren't "good enough" for retail to the DEVs ? :-0
That was my intention when I hooked it to a PC3000 rig... But I can't fix because there is several bad blocks on the FW area ... :lol: I suppose that's what the technician thought back in 2002 when he was readying this item for shipping ... "Isn't worth fixing as it won't be good ... But wait... It's working fine otherwise, why not slab it into a DTL case as it will be used on a TOOL anyway, nobody will notice it's half broken ...." :lol:
