Booyaa! Samsung Drive upgraded.

[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

[infertility]

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?

[Frito]

Originally Posted by infertility

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.