Booyaa! Samsung Drive upgraded.
 

Installed and works flawlessly. :D I'm now working on it fitting nicely in the case.

Quick question, does an 80-pin ide cable improve performance over the standard 40pin?

Dont know about the cables but I do have a request for ya. Try and make the eject tray fit nicely. Itll look like its in a bit further than normal.



Tyler!

@ frito Is that a xbox samsung drive?or a pc dvd samsung drive ya put in?
if a regular pc dvd drive does it read original games ok?

I figured he had a PC Samsung drive because he said he was still trying to fit it in there. An xbox samsung would fit no problems.

I should have asked though.




Tyler!

Yeah, it's a Samsung PC drive SD-616 to be exact. It reads game perfectly, load times are cut in half on Freedom fighters, I can't say much for other games yet cause that's the only one I brought to work.

And since i put this into a 1.0 I only had to shave one peg down of the dvd rack for it to fit perfectly.

I hit a snag though, I don't have the Xbox front panel thing that goes on the end of the loading tray. The only one I have is off of a thompson drive and it doesn't seem to fit.

Anyone have one off of a samsung drive they want to sell?

Thanks.

Umm I think the panels are all the same. You just gotta take it off the old drive. Be careful, you could break somethin.



Tyler!

Damn, naw the Samsung tray tabs are a smidge too wide. Time to get out the dremel I guess :P

Frito

Where exactly did you go for the wire diagrams? I've seen 3 differnet diagrams, pointing to 3 different places for each wire. I'm trying ot figure out where to splice the 4 wires to my Yellow DVD-ROM Cable. Also, These diagrams say the numbers on the Yellow DVD-ROM cable, are like this....

1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12

I swear, I think my numbers are like this, unless I'm wrong.

1 3 5 7 9 11
2 4 6 8 10 12

I'd appreciate your help. Also. The point on the SamSung DVD-ROM "Tray In" My solder point came off, and I soldered my wire to a via point just below that point, it looks like the Tray In solder point, originates from that area. Will that alternative way work? If not, how can I fix the solder point?

Yeah, that via should be just fine.

I used the PDF from the guy I got the drive from on Ebay, it's the same one on xbox-scene.

Here's the link.
http://www.xbox-modchips.com/tutorials/samsung3.pdf

Also, mentioning of note. 3 and 4 were switched for me.

To use this PDF here's what you gotta do, the diagram is for the small end. Find the wire (using the small end) and cut it, then wire the drive to the cut wire on the long plug side.

Just switch 3 and 4 and you're set.

Tomorrow I can do a whole pin-out.

Can this be done by splicing the wires to where there supposed to go, instead of cutting the yellow wires? 3 of the wires I cut, were the wrong one. I tried soldering them back together, and the xbox wouldn't boot. I tried wrapping them back together without using solder, and tried booting the xbox, and it still didn't boot. I'm ordering 2 extra DVD-ROM cables incase I screw up again. Also, that PDF was the one that guy told me to check out when I purchased mine from Ebay as well. But, in the diagram, in specifics, it does not tell you where "Eject" and "M1" go. I'm thinking when he shows the little diagram of the yellow power cbale, and shows where the eject wire is, that must be where I splice the "Eject" wire from the DVD-ROM to. But "M1 - Ready Signal" I have no idea. Could you tell me which wires you spliced? I'll do the revers method for Tray In/Out, when the extra wires get here. Please get back to me. Thank You! :-)

Edit - Also, how can the drive get power? I already have a Cold Cathode light installed in my xbox, sharing power from the HDD. Is there another way for the DVD-ROM drive to receive power?

Yeah, splicing isn't an issue as the small plug end of the yellow cables doesn't get plugged into anything.

You can, use those other wires though, to feed power to the DVD drive. The Pinouts have the power marked so you just need to solder those wires to the posts of the power connector.

I'll try to do an MSPaint of the pinouts for you. :)

Okay here's the pinout I'm using that works.

I don't trust the voltages other people use cause their're all contradictory. I'm gonna hook the xbox to a multimeter a little later.

This is looking at the end that plugs into the xbox.

Okay finished 'em. The 12v is a little low but still close enough to call it 12V

Here's the new pinout. I'm gonna go ahead and wire 'em up to the molex connecter posts and I'll let you know how it works.

OKay finished wiring the 5's 12's and Grounds. I'm about to plug it in, I'll let you know if it explodes or not.

Okay that didn't work
Damn

Don't do that. :P

So I rewired using pins 1,8,6,13. Drive ejects and stuff like it's supposed to but now I get red/green flashing

Well ****. I'll have to wait till later to work on it.

I'll check back later myself when you have it completed. :-)

It seems to be working now, for some reason it really wanted a controller plugged in. So now that it's all working again, i'm going to try to wire up the power.

I'll let you know how it works out.

SO ****ed.

Yeah, don't do it, I though I had everything mapped out right but I powered it on and the DVD drive started smoking.

It's all ****ered up. I pray it's just the drive and not the IDE controller I trashed cause now it's sayin HDD errors.

Error code 7 whatever that is.

Geezus this sucks.

Ouch! :(




Tyler!

I've been playing my xbox without a DVD-ROM attached, and it worked fine. I then decided to give up on the samsung hack, and install my thompson back into the xbox. Now, my thompson doesn't work anymore :-( Everytime my unleashx dash appears, my DVD-ROM (WITH NOTHING INSIDE IT) tries to boot an imaginary disc, and then it goes to my msdash, and says this disc cannot be played, etc, etc. I've tried with the chip on and off, and I get the same response. I'm going to purchase a samsung that comes straight from an xbox, so I can avoid anymore loss of money and time. But does anybody know why my thompson isn't working anymore? all the cables are pluged in? :-(

Damn guys, I think Ive learned a lesson here.




Tyler! :(

Haha.. Live and Learn Tyler. I ordered another Samsung drive. There's a guy I found in google selling the 616's for 16 bux a pop plus 8 shipping. Got one, gonna try this again. :D

During this ordeal, I have lost both, my thompson, and the samsung I was going to hack. I'm just going to buy a samsung straight from an xbox off of ebay. *sigh*

well, i am sry it had to resort to that.

I notice you have a lockable 300 gigger now though. I relaly didn't think there was any.

Wait.. why? Just cause you can't power the samsung drive without a Y connector?

LOL, yup! I found one about 6 months ago. The reason why I added the serial number, is because there's 2 different 300gig HDD's by Maxtor. The serial number I give is the one that is lockable ;-)

I somehow fried the samsung, I lost it completely. And my thompson just died out of nowhere. Maybe static electricity was the cause, idk. So down the road, I'm going to have to buy a samsung. And to add to all of this. I have a custom painted xbox, and the xbox face plate for the DVD-ROM was thrown away as well. *sigh* :(

Is there any way we can get some pics of that xbox? Id like to see it.




Tyler!

nah, you don't want to see it, lol. It's my first custom paint job, I used silver acrylic paint. I didn't know what I was doing. But I like it because it's different. I added a 8mm blue cold cathode light for the jewel, and I installed a blue eject light. :)

I want to case mod mine but it's so hard to try and find something that hasn't already been done :(

Just do what you like. You dont have to be completely different.



Tyler!

Yeah, but it's hard to feel good about it when it's already been done.

Like when I window kitted my Ps2. Everyone was like, "old news" "been done before"

I said **** and gave up.

Oh yeah! I remember that.



Tyler!