Dvd drive enclosure

From:	koswix	19 Oct 2014 12:26
To:	ALL	1 of 20

41247.1
I have a nice Dvd writer in my PC that doesn't get used as the PC isn't set up at present. I'd like to use it with my laptop, but the only 5.25" enclosures with esata I can see cost more than he drive did. I need to use this existing drive because it has certain, um, capabilities. Anyone know of any cheap caddies? Or should I just use the connectors from a cheap caddy and laser cut a case for it all? ▪ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ │ │ │ │ ▪ │ └────┘ │ │ ──┐ ┌── │ ▪ ┌──────┤ ▪ ▪ │ ┌┘ │ │ ▪ ┌─┤ └──┐ │ │ ┌──┘ │ │ │ ││ ││ │ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┼┤ └┴─┴───┘ │ │ │ ─┘│ │ │ │ ┌──────┐ └┬──────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┘ └───┘ If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	19 Oct 2014 13:38
To:	koswix	2 of 20

41247.2 In reply to 41247.1
Why esata? usb should do fine for a dvd writer. ---- "Ninety percent of Americans use the Internet. The other ten percent use the banjo."

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From:	koswix	19 Oct 2014 14:15
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	3 of 20

41247.3 In reply to 41247.2
I don't want any cheap nasty USB circuits getting in the way between imgburn and the drive. Plus I have an esata port doing nothing right now :C Bizarrely, my PC hasn't been switched on for quite a while. It was all fine last time I used it. Booted it up today and there's all sorts of browser toolbar hijacks going on, windows has decided it's not genuine, and I can't connect to the tight Vnc server at all. Da Fuck. ▪ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ │ │ │ │ ▪ │ └────┘ │ │ ──┐ ┌── │ ▪ ┌──────┤ ▪ ▪ │ ┌┘ │ │ ▪ ┌─┤ └──┐ │ │ ┌──┘ │ │ │ ││ ││ │ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┼┤ └┴─┴───┘ │ │ │ ─┘│ │ │ │ ┌──────┐ └┬──────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┘ └───┘ If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	19 Oct 2014 14:22
To:	koswix	4 of 20

41247.4 In reply to 41247.3
Just pointing out you will not notice any speed advantage with esata for anything less than hdd or ssd, certainly not for optical drives, especially not a writer. Usb enclosures are way cheaper, apparently a concern? ---- "Ninety percent of Americans use the Internet. The other ten percent use the banjo."

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From:	koswix	19 Oct 2014 17:53
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	5 of 20

41247.5 In reply to 41247.4

Not so much for throughput, but latency. These discs are hard enough to get to burn right as it is.


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From:	Dan (HERMAND)	19 Oct 2014 18:22
To:	koswix	6 of 20

41247.6 In reply to 41247.5
What are you trying to burn? I've not had a failed write since the 90's in the bad old days of Nero and having to disable screensavers etc. Fucking buffer underrun :( Dan Herman

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From:	koswix	19 Oct 2014 20:00
To:	Dan (HERMAND)	7 of 20

41247.7 In reply to 41247.6

Some stuff Jim asked me to do for him.

8.7 Gb on 8.5 Gb dual layer discs.


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From:	koswix	19 Oct 2014 20:02
To:	Dan (HERMAND)	8 of 20

41247.8 In reply to 41247.6

I remember years ago we went to Glasgow to a computer fair. On the way back our train was delayed because one of the trains going into Waverley had failed to stop and crashed into the buffers.

We /genuinely/ found it utterly /hilarious/ that for once our day had been ruined by a buffer overrun. (fail)


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	20 Oct 2014 08:10
To:	koswix	9 of 20

41247.9 In reply to 41247.7
I don't think I ever managed or bothered to do what needs to be done now with the overburn. I was tempted to get an optical disc emulator thing then stick the isos on a USB drive. Not sure if it's a waste of would actually make me use it more regularly. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	20 Oct 2014 09:47
To:	ANT_THOMAS	10 of 20

41247.10 In reply to 41247.9

I was doing fine with over burn, but lately (maybe last 12 months?) all my discs fail. Put them in and it says Play Game but with no name/icon, many starting them causes the screen to go black (like it's stsrting) but then crashes back to the desktop.


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From:	koswix	20 Oct 2014 11:57
To:	ANT_THOMAS	11 of 20

41247.11 In reply to 41247.9

So for £50 there's a guy across town that'll install the RGH stuff. That's not much more than the cost of setting up my DVD drive to use with my laptop and getting some more discs (only got 3 left), plus I can run homebrew.


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	20 Oct 2014 12:18
To:	koswix	12 of 20

41247.12 In reply to 41247.11
Is it still compatible? I remember you saying it was banned from Live so probably hasn't been updated beyond the maximum dashboard version. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	20 Oct 2014 14:01
To:	ANT_THOMAS	13 of 20

41247.13 In reply to 41247.12

The RGH thing works on any dashboard. My banned one had rrod a few years ago (it's fixed but not being used). My second one never went online (except on the day I got it to get the divx license thing), but was stolen. My third and current one has never been online since being flashed.


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From:	koswix	22 Oct 2014 23:34
To:	ANT_THOMAS	14 of 20

41247.14 In reply to 41247.12
Picked the box up tonight, and while Freestyle Dash certainly has some very rough edges, it's remarkably capable and intuitive. So far I've ripped some games from original DVDs, transferred some via (FAT32 :S ) USB hard drive, and FTP'd some Arcade games over. Not really practical on wifi given the size of these things. I think the next step is to replace the 60gb internal drive with something a bit more modern and throw all my discs out. Not looked into home brew or emulators yet, that can wait for the weekend. ▪ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ │ │ │ │ ▪ │ └────┘ │ │ ──┐ ┌── │ ▪ ┌──────┤ ▪ ▪ │ ┌┘ │ │ ▪ ┌─┤ └──┐ │ │ ┌──┘ │ │ │ ││ ││ │ ┌─┐ │ │ └─┼┤ └┴─┴───┘ │ │ │ ─┘│ │ │ │ ┌──────┐ └┬──────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───┘ └───┘ If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	23 Oct 2014 07:50
To:	koswix	15 of 20

41247.15 In reply to 41247.14
So you believe it's worth it? ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	23 Oct 2014 08:10
To:	ANT_THOMAS	16 of 20

41247.16 In reply to 41247.15

For the convenience factor alone, yeah.

You can swap out the internal drive for any size you want now. Not sure if I'll do that or just plug an external one in (easier for copying things across).

I wonder if XBMC has been ported...


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	23 Oct 2014 09:45
To:	koswix	17 of 20

41247.17 In reply to 41247.16
Can you even remove the drive from the external caddy thing? I have an original shape model. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	23 Oct 2014 10:57
To:	ANT_THOMAS	18 of 20

41247.18 In reply to 41247.17

Yeah, you need torx 10 and 6 to get into it, and it's just a standard 2.5" drive inside. If it's a full height drive (12.5 mm?) you're putting in then you need to bend off 4 retaining clips, but no biggy.

I have a phat one. The slim ones can only take 9.5mm high drives from what I've seen.


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	23 Oct 2014 11:28
To:	koswix	19 of 20

41247.19 In reply to 41247.18
And does yours now have a chip of some sort? ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	koswix	23 Oct 2014 14:03
To:	ANT_THOMAS	20 of 20

41247.20 In reply to 41247.19

Yeah, not sure exactly what chip but I'll probably open it up at some point to inspect the guys handy work anyway.

Think it's one of these : http://www.consolewizard.co.uk/kes/original-phat-xbox-360-jtag-rgh-flashing/53-xbox-360-phat-rgh-reset-glitch-hack.html


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