I had thought about this but never tried it. Anyone got a clue if this would work.
Starting with what we know. A PC bios will only attempt to read a disc from the inside out and XBOX is outside in. I also thought that the XBOX drive spins in reverse when reading a game disc. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
Here is my thought. What if we took a drive and reversed the power connections to the spindle motor as well as the sled motor and then moved the sled all the way out to the edge before putting it back together.
Would the drive not spin in reverse and the optics would be at the outer edge and eventhough it thought it was reading from the inside > out it would be actually reading outside > in.
If this worked then it would be possible, eventhough so many people don't like it, to use XISO to read the DVD drive as you would still need a way to read the XBFS file system.
What do you think?