xboxscene.org forums

OG Xbox Forums => Hardware Forums => General Hardware/Technical Chat => Topic started by: lordvader129 on May 08, 2005, 09:13:00 PM

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: lordvader129 on May 08, 2005, 09:13:00 PM

probably a bad cable

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: TvLover on May 09, 2005, 11:34:00 PM

Well, I think I can say for posative that it was not the cable... I used a 16" IDE that had 5 connections put on it and still the same thing.

I was wondering this though.. Is it nessisary to also break the grounds on the Hard Drives?? I did not do this yet just the + 12 and + 5 volts.
I will let you know what happens there.

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: jonnywes on May 10, 2005, 04:44:00 AM

no you dont have to break the grounds. that wouldn't make any sense. your hardrives might not all be compatable, or have you tried switching the 3rd in for #2 or 1? I heard the extender gave alot of people a really hard time.... this lead to cutting wires on the ide cable and adding switches or somthing.

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 10, 2005, 05:01:00 AM

i think you need to do some switching on soem of the wires.

look for ZacOps tut on how to do this

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 11, 2005, 03:13:00 AM

send a pm to hozy, he can help you out. he has done this mod, and gotten it working

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: TvLover on May 11, 2005, 10:32:00 PM

Well as I am waiting for hozer?? to reply to me I would like to ask if anyone else has done this mod? And if so how did you do it? What wire on the IDE line did you cut?

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 13, 2005, 01:21:00 AM

QUOTE(TvLover @ May 12 2005, 02:38 PM)

Well as I am waiting for hozer?? to reply to me I would like to ask if anyone else has done this mod? And if so how did you do it? What wire on the IDE line did you cut?

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 14, 2005, 07:22:00 AM

QUOTE(TvLover @ May 14 2005, 12:24 AM)

Does anyone know of a site that "has' this info?

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 15, 2005, 01:47:00 AM

QUOTE(TvLover @ May 15 2005, 01:26 AM)

Yes I did PM hozy, that night I said I did he/she has not replied to me yet, I do not want to ask again for fear I might piss them off by posting multi questions.

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 17, 2005, 01:41:00 AM

QUOTE(TvLover @ May 16 2005, 02:47 AM)

I did, He replied with this... get a ATA 100, 133, 166 cable then you do not need this mod. So I replied that I have already tried that and it is still not working.

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: magneto259 on May 17, 2005, 02:58:00 AM

I have the xtender kit also and i can only get 2 drives to work at the same time. As soon as i hookup the third it looks up at the big x while booting up. So switching 1 and 29 thats supposed to be the trick............

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 18, 2005, 04:20:00 AM

QUOTE(TvLover @ May 18 2005, 05:44 PM)

THANK YOU MUCH I will try that later this week and let you all know how it worked.

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: TvLover on May 18, 2005, 10:25:00 PM

QUOTE(magneto259 @ May 17 2005, 11:09 AM)

I have the xtender kit also and i can only get 2 drives to work at the same time. As soon as i hookup the third it looks up at the big x while booting up. So switching 1 and 29 thats supposed to be the trick............

Title: 3 Hard Drives Question?
Post by: ferrari_rulz_02 on May 19, 2005, 05:09:00 AM

well thats good that you got the three drives working