SATA HDD for softmod and Xbox dev kit

Dear friends

is it possible to use SATA HDD for xbox softmoded? How to lock on with eeprom and right serial number?
And in case about dev kit?

No lag with adatptator IDE to SATA?

Thanks

 

This recent thread will answer some of your questions:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forum...TA-IDE-adapter-work-in-original-XBOX&p=793285

Results are mixed... I've used it for softmod fine, others have had issues.. probably depends on the hardware you're using. I don't know anything about the dev kit, though.

 

For 100% reliability, get a PATA drive, issues I've run into using SATA adapters:

1.) Hard drive spin-up during cold boots, may take take 3-4 power cycles until it actually boots.
2.) Random disc error messages playing games that were copied from disc to the hard drive.

Went back to a PATA drive in the X3 and all is back to normal. No one wants a DVT4 modified, keep that puppy stock and find a cheap retail Xbox.

 

Don't you dare modify a DVT4. I will personally track you down and relieve you of it.. not really.. but don't mod it!!

If you're meaning a debug kit, I personally don't care as much but honestly it is not worth it in the slightest. Debug kits are limited by how big of a HDD they can read, I think 120 is max.. maybe it was 160 but I know it wont read bigger than that so a sata IDE adapter in that xbox would be a waste of your time. And yes there is a considerable amount of added lag from the adapters. Expect 30-40 second startup times with them..

 

People and wanting to start fingering devkits annoy me.

 

^ Who cares? It's his/hers to do what he/she pleases to it.

 

Because there is no point to doing it and you're destroying a very limited supply of something. Right now it's not as big a deal as it would be 100 years from now.

"This prick destroyed the one thing we needed to <insert something important here>". As if we don't lament the destruction of the Library at Alexandria. "Who cares, there are a million papyrus here and it's his to do as he wants."

 

The losses at Alexandria are over-exaggerated by most measures. It was also burnt multiple times, not just one grand fire.

137gb is the limit on standard BIOS.

But really, there is no point in a larger harddrive. I still hold the opinion that all kits will need to be opened at some point, but we shouldnt hasten it unnecessarily. Unless the harddrive is totally destroyed, with caps leaking, there isn't much gained. Money would be saved to just go with a modified retail board. No harm done that way.

 

I get your point but looking out for 100 years down the road seems a little silly to me.

 

With a special phoenix bios we can use HDD larger than 137GB on DEV/Debug kit, I explain it somewhere in Chihiro topic.
Thanks for your answer, I have some of new IDE/PATA HDD from WD for softmod, and I keep one for change.

 

It's stupid because there's people out there that would do almost anything to own a kit and not molest it.

There's so many retail consoles that can do the same thing, you can:

Run a debug BIOS

Have 128MB RAM

Load Debug, unsigned code

Flash about any bios, and have 137GB+ compatibility.

So fucking around with a inside kit... why? Extremely stupid, and not cost effective.

Let people do what they want? Sure, you know what too? People ask for advice and what to do with something and they'll go ahead with their own thoughts anyway. Then bitch about it later, we've all heard stories like this.
The other point to make is many don't know that <1.6 systems can be pretty much converted to dev/debug kits anyway.

I wouldn't want to ruin a perfectly good inside kit for a stupid hack and mod unless you're restoring things like Borman said.

 

If people want a kit and not molest it, there's always the option of buying their own.

 

We wouldn't have any left if everyone did that. That's the point I'm trying to make, that you seem to fail to understand here.

 

Just because I don't fully agree with your point does not mean I don't understand it.