Topic: Usb Hard Drive (i'm Serious) (Read 288 times)

Cornholio · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2002, 01:44:00 PM »

QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Nov 28 2002, 04:58 AM)

USB drives show up as memory cards on the Xbox, apparently.

Yes, but don't the memory cards just show up as another drive (i.e. with a drive letter) ?

Is there any reason you couldn't launch an XBE from a memory card?

socrates · « **Reply #16 on:** November 29, 2002, 01:55:00 PM »

I think he's talking about hooking up a USB hard drive Inplace of the original harddrive..........probley with some sort of converter that will allow it.,

foocankill · « **Reply #17 on:** December 01, 2002, 05:14:00 PM »

if it does show up as a drive then you can launch your games from boxplorer, i actually thought of doing this before, its not a bad idea. or i think you could also get a usb dvd drive and launch games off that or a zip drive, jazz drive, whatever.

Cornholio · « **Reply #18 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:24:00 AM »

This is what I am thinking. If this works, this could be the perfect solution.

A USB DVD-ROM drive.

No more having to remove the internal DVD to wire up another one. Just plug up a USB DVD drive to a controller port.

You could add an option to the EvoX menu to get it to boot from this DVD drive. And in future I'm sure a BIOS patch could be added to get the box to try and boot from this drive, and then the internal drive, without too much difficulty.

Sure, it wouldn't be as fast as IDE. But it's still like 1.25MB/SEC, which seems to be about as fast as the internal drive reads original Xbox games anyway. So all in all, pretty good solution if you ask me.

Cornholio · « **Reply #19 on:** December 02, 2002, 09:00:00 AM »

Yea, but what I'm talking about is a DVD drive. Would solve all the problems - you could have your original Xbox DVD AND a PC DVD drive connected at once. That would be just too cool.

stiGGy · « **Reply #20 on:** December 02, 2002, 10:53:00 AM »

sorry 2 burst the bubble but im just goin by what ive previously read on this forum, xbox's are usb v 1.0 not v1.1 making them MUCH slower, and way way to slow to be worth your time.

foocankill · « **Reply #21 on:** December 04, 2002, 08:05:00 PM »

ripdotcom is right

Fuzzy · « **Reply #22 on:** December 04, 2002, 08:59:00 PM »

QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Nov 28 2002, 04:58 AM)

Try a search of the forums next time.... been there, done that, as they say.

USB drives show up as memory cards on the Xbox, apparently.

speaking of which have you seen my post? me and brass monkey are going to try and make a usb memory card so that instead of sacrificing a port you plug it into a memory card. Sounds cool huh? yea i guess not...

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