Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 12:00:00 PM
I want to be able to swap the retail DVD drives, be it a Phillips, Thomson or a Samsung with a normal PC DVD drive. I've seen the tutorials where to add a second PC DVD drive, but that's not quite what I'm after. At the end of the day, the retails DVD drives are tweaked normal drives, well, how can I tweak a normal PC Drive?
Looking at the xbox setup the IDE is exactly the same. The only obvious difference is the Power input and the whole yellow conector thingy. Where can I find info on that bit? what are the differences between the retail drives and normal PC DVD drives?
Sorrry, if this message has gone on for some time and you are bored to tears with my questions, but it would be great if someone out there had some answers or even shared the same interest.
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 12:16:00 PM
Anyone know where to find out about that yellow conector?
Post by: Dan Wysocki on January 05, 2004, 12:28:00 PM
that is generally the drive people change to...there should be sum help in them.
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 12:31:00 PM
http://www.coverx.or...orials.php?id=1
The drive in question is a pioneer 500M, but I guess the same principles apply?
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 12:38:00 PM
| QUOTE (zx25_gt @ Jan 5 2004, 10:29 PM) |
| didn't these guys already do that, or something? http://dwl.xbox-scen...ls/samsung2.pdf |
that's a good tutorial. but are we confined to using samsung 615t blah blah blah drives or can we get any good old DVD drive and do it? I know the obivous thing like the size of the drive must be the same, to actually fit the xbox, but do all DVD drive work on the same principles?
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 12:52:00 PM
Yeah that is nuts it says it won't read originall games, what's the point doing it in the first place? and why won't it read originals???
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 01:11:00 PM
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 01:18:00 PM
Talking of USB adapters, the one that comes with the xecuter 2.3 is useless and I clipped the 2 black wires at put the to LPC #6. Whilst just having the USB adapter in my hand, i put it to the yellow cable for the DVD drive and they are the same type. So maybe I could use this in some kind of way to modify a normal DVD drive
Post by: EXCURSION-CRUSHER on January 05, 2004, 01:45:00 PM
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 01:48:00 PM
| QUOTE (EXCURSION-CRUSHER @ Jan 5 2004, 11:45 PM) |
| wait a min, got an idea, you know how some dvd drives require software/drivers. We could wright our own drivers for the xbox that would play xbox games. maybe... |
Yeah you maybe right, maybe it a mix of hardware and software mod that would make it work
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 02:16:00 PM
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 02:17:00 PM
this maybe a naive thing of me to say but, surely a couple of wires and a few blobs of solder at various point would do the trick?
Post by: kevbox on January 05, 2004, 02:37:00 PM
Post by: KingViper on January 06, 2004, 08:06:00 AM
KingViper
Post by: mouchyn on January 06, 2004, 09:02:00 AM
that's the drive you need.
it plays just about everything.
you need to flash it with the Samsung 605B firmware for the xbox to read it.
this is a very basic mod and doesn't take any time at all.
It's been done over and over by tons of people.
read the tutorials before assuming that nobody has tried using PC DVD rom drives in their xbox...
Post by: kevbox on January 06, 2004, 09:08:00 AM
| QUOTE (WhiteWolf X @ Jan 6 2004, 06:11 PM) |
| heh. kevbox, regarding that usb adapter. i got mine with my 2.3 lite plus for some odd reason (didn't order one). i failed to install the chip on my xbox (which i nuked by accident) but i plugged the USB adapter into an extra inline release cable i had into my new xbox. however, i have yet to test it out. do u think it will work? i may try it later today with my optical mouse from my PC  |
I just got my USB female port adapter today, only about 058, just linked up my keyboard and mouse and it's working great with linux.