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There are some posts here that report what adapters are working for them. Keep in mind that just because one works on one system, it may not work on yours. There are those that have tried multiple adapters of the same brand to find one that will work.

If it doesn't work on your PC, I would think it would be a good bet that it won't work in the Xbox.

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QUOTE(edwardar @ Sep 10 2010, 06:00 AM)

I have a Samsung 1TB Ecogreen hard drive and my xbox's old 160gb drive has just died.  I bought the standard dealextreme SATA-IDE adaptor http://www.dealextre...ls.dx/sku.12537 but I can't get it working.

When I plugged the Ecogreen HD105SI into the xbox, I immediately get a flashing red light on boot.

So I thought I'd try out the adaptor with my PC, but that doesn't work either. I then bought another SATA-IDE adaptor (same one) but that does the same.  My PC will recognise the drive, but it doesn't work properly (can't format it).

My questions

Do I need to limit the SATA speed to 1.5gb/s on the drive?  This cannot be done by a jumper on the Ecogreens, and requires software to reconfigure the drive.

Also, what jumper settings do people use on the Dealextreme adaptor?  I've experimented, but I believe cable select (1-3 and 2-4) is correct.

Any other tips?  Thanks in advance.

P.S. The hard drive definitely works, because when I plugged in directly into my PC's SATA connections it works fine.

P.P.S. Someone on xboxdrives.x-pec.com claims to have got the HD103SI working (i have one of these too - v similar to the HD105SI). This was using a different IDE adaptor which would cost me £20, so I'd prefer not to go down this road.

 First off how is your xbox modded, 2nd how did you setup the new hdd before trying to get it to boot ?

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QUOTE(edwardar @ Sep 14 2010, 05:49 AM)

Update

Thanks for the replies.  My xbox is modchipped (xecuter 2.0 pro) and the drive was not prepared for the xbox (is this necessary? It was NTSC formatted.).

So, I gave up on my HD105SI and tried my HD103SI instead (same Ecogreen drive, slightly older model). I also managed to change the drive to SATA150 using ESTOOL software. I set my SATA-IDE adaptor to cable select and:

My xbox now boots normally (ie the drive is recognised!). I managed to boot slayer 2.7 and formatted the drive with evox (stranglely I couldn't launch xbpartitioner or dvd2xbox within slayer). I have the following symptoms:

1. Booting is slow (X2 5035 pauses for 5 seconds before showing the flubber)

2. XBpartitioner will not work properly. It fails when I try to create/delete partitions.

3. Sometimes the xbox will boot, sometimes it won't.

4. Copying files onto the hard drive doesn't work properly. I've managed to load evox off the HD, but nothing else.

I'm now wondering if I would get a more reliable setup by buying a different (or yet another dealextreme!) SATA-IDE adaptor.  Otherwise, I'm looking to spend yet more on a low-power cool 500gb IDE drive... any tips would be most welcome!

 Since the hdd is being recognised you are halfway there, the dealextreme adapter thats works best is the $4.49 one. xbpartitioner 1.1 is the version you should use and i would possibly flash your chip with another bios - ind5003 works well so i'd load it onto the chip as an alternate bios.