Booyaa! Samsung Drive upgraded.

[Frito]

Installed and works flawlessly. 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?

[TylerDurden]

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!

[puppeteer666]

@ 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?

[TylerDurden]

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!

[Frito]

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.

[TylerDurden]

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!

[Frito]

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

[Frito]

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.

[TylerDurden]

Ouch!




Tyler!

[infertility]

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? :-(

[TylerDurden]

Damn guys, I think Ive learned a lesson here.




Tyler!

[Frito]

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.