Hi, i got today an HKT-120 Katana devbox. I had such a kit before, so my env on my devpc was setup before and rdy to boot. Plug in the scsi cable to pc booting Katana, than booting pc, katana is reged by my controller anything fine! Well the HDD is not in the best condition. I need to change it. I got some crit errors sometime when i start the box and the hdd is not rdy... First i start GD Workshop and see firmware 2.4.5i is installed on the HKT-120, but i have installed 2.9.0R on pc side. So im not sure remember correct about flashing. And another point, getting data from the drive before a firmware update will be better? But i need GD workshop to access the emulation part of the hdd? What i need for replacing the HDD after i checked it? maybe an nice beta on the hdd... regards Chris
If the hard drive has errors and could potentially be failing, priority would be to clone it and work from the clone. I'd use ddrescue myself. If it doesn't do a 100% copy, though, you may have issues.
Yeah, if you are thinking there might be useful stuff on the drive, plug it directly into a SCSI card on a computer and either clone it to a new drive, or create a complete dump of the drive. Make sure you clone/dump the ENTIRE drive, including 'blank space', you never know what might be hiding there... I have two of these (one is just on loan), and the first thing I did on mine was a complete image of the drive before I did anything else with it (in this case, just the 2gb main partition as the system had never been changed from default configuration in it's lifetime), the other one has a drive that won't even mount... It'll spin up, but just clicks and sits there (that's all it's ever done since I had it). Kind of a shame, no telling what might be on that one.
The hard drive's sole purpose is to hold game data that would normally be on the GD-ROM. It's possible to load a binary directly into memory using Codescape and not use the HD, so technically you don't have to use the HD to run software. Regarding a replacement drive, I have been interested in trying this out: SCSI2SD
