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Old 01-01-2004, 17:55
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Question Harddrives?

hey guys i am just woundering about the harddrives for the ps2. i have read that you can just take a maxtor computer harddrive and install it in your ps2. the only thing i am unsure about is how to exactauly do that?
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Old 01-01-2004, 18:08
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Maxtor? If you can put one of those Im sure you can put just about any hdd in. Id like to hear some info on it myself. Im more of a Seagate fan personally. Also any info on preparing the hdd for the ps2 would be nice as well.

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Old 01-01-2004, 18:10
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hardrive formats

i think it depends on the need of the hdd. i'm pretty sure hdd games come with utilities that make a special filesystem for ps2 game playing, and i think i've seen the executables floating around. for linux...it pretty much follows the rules to get the harddrive
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Old 02-01-2004, 09:57
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TYLER

hey Tyler man.. you want to learn more info on this correct. i asked this question at DMS3 as they seem to know a lot more about harddrives over there. the post is at http://www.dms3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13532#13532 and i am eakinsme there as well as you can tell by my name. they did say sum good info but i am awaiting more. hope to see a post from you about it there to tyler. PS:looks like your Seagate works nice in the ps2
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Old 02-01-2004, 10:12
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Yeah I guess Ill look into that. I rarely log in to other sites. I try to keep myself FileForum based.

Oh and BTW I dont go by the name Tyler anywhere else other than here. But youll probably recognize my trademark attitude.




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Old 02-01-2004, 10:14
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LOL THAD A BOY TYLER.. DONT TAKE **** FROM NO1 and if they get in ur way that ban button is always there!lol
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Hi guys. I too have been looking into this. I found the following links which may be of interest.

http://www.brookfresh.co.uk/hddinstall1.asp
http://www.sscorpio.com/~bungiefan/psbbn_faq.html
http://www.ps2ownz.com/forums/showth...threadid=11582 - This is a dedicated HDD Forum!

Hope you can make some use from these links...
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I don't know if this sounds stupid, but if the hard drive doesn't fit properly, can't you just use a normal connector ribbon that is normally used for linking hard drives to the computer motherboard? I'm really tempted to try since I have a 10 gig hard drive sitting at home with nothing on it.
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you probably could but you would need a power extension cable too.
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Old 03-01-2004, 03:13
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You could but only the DMS HDD Explorer supports disks which are smaller than 40GB - so unless you have a DMS3, you have to use a 40GB+ drive. They also don't have many uses at the moment. Unless you have the Linux kit of course. For example, you have to have a Network Adapter (pretty obvious), You cannot load games to HDD (bar JAP FF XI), You cannot save to HDD and you cannot swap saves from MC to HDD. Nor does it show up in the browser screen, so until someone can crack the bios which Sony puts on their HDD, and allow it to be flashed to a conventional drive, there is pretty much no use to it as of yet
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If you despert. Get x-port
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I've got X-Port. It works pretty sweet.
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