Opened A Xbox To Find A Hitachi-lg Dvdrom, **MERGED TOPICS** Options

[menelik]

just wait until tomorrow. i mailed trubb my solution and he will test this too. i got two working drives here and just have to do some fine tuning. the big suprise was that i really can read every medium - believe me that this is for real
i also did some stress test an my drive is still alive and i dont think that my method will hurt it. i' happy to say that this is really the first mod which dont have any frontiers with media.

the last todo thing is the max speed limitation of about 1200 kb/s for cds. actually im not interested into more speed and i dont believe that this will be easy to solve without firmware hacks which you shouldnt wait for.

btw, i'm going to publish my tutorial tomorrow which will also show how to fit the drive gently into the xbox.

stay tuned

This post has been edited by menelik: May 21 2005, 10:06 PM

[SpEeDaMiGo]

@menelik
That could very likely have happened ... it's what I had in mind too. Didn't expect it to fry the laser permanently though.

I guess your mod is based on vrcd and vrdvd ...

@stilly82
Go ahead and try it and see what turns out. I don't know WHY this mod SHOULD even work though, considering it only uses 2 wires. Nevermind.

[truBB]

@stilly82
hehe, sure that mod will work, somewhat... eject will work, reading original xbox games won't work, status won't work in eVox, status in smartxx firmware won't work, status in flashbios won't work and you need a mod chip to read backed up games/apps. If you want this kind of setup, you don't need a 8163b

[u_no_fr]

Exactly guys,

it just works for eject the tray

tchusss

[turho]

The cd-r support project working or not?

[dopeuser]

http://www.tuning-consoles.com/modules.php...content&tid=114
just looks like simply rewire of the switches, kinda like I could rerun the wires in my house to the light switch in the kitchen turns on the lights in the bathroom, but that doesnt mean I can take a dump in the kitchen sink!
but anyways... I got everything done with my 8163b, its flashed and been hacked up to fit nicely in the xbox, well, almost.... it doesnt come foward enough, it needs about another 1/16" or so to bring it flush with the front.
The height is good, its nice and centered and doesnt rub anything when opening or closing, obviously Ill have to cut, grind, bend, or mutilate something to give me that 1/16", but what? Oh well, I think Ill wait for menelik's tutorial on "how to fit the drive gently into the xbox." hopefully you have a lot of pics, and dont forget to drop the link to it here please.
And THANKS!

This post has been edited by dopeuser: May 22 2005, 06:44 AM

[G0t M4xx 21]

it will rea dvd+r(w) which no samsung could and it will read every cd like no drive really could before.

Hmm, every Samsung 605b and flashed 616t I have reads everything, including dvd+r and dvd+rw, and "every cd". Maybe I just got lucky.

This post has been edited by G0t M4xx 21: May 22 2005, 06:57 AM

[menelik]

@G0t M4xx 21

i tested every version pof the samsung drive except the version coming along with the 1.6 which was the worst. no drive could read dvd+, even the modded 616t cant. the latest samsung drives read no cds too.

This post has been edited by menelik: May 22 2005, 10:28 AM

[ferrari_rulz_02]

has anyone actually made a tutorial on this yet???

[G0t M4xx 21]

@G0t M4xx 21

i tested every version pof the samsung drive except the version coming along with the 1.6 which was the worst. no drive could read dvd+, even the modded 616t cant. the latest samsung drives read no cds too.

I haven't tried the 1.6 samsung yet (i know it sucks), but every 605b and 616t Ive ever messed with has read dvd+r/rw. For me at least, its dvd-r/rw that they have trouble with.

Ive burned many game backups to Memorex 8x DVD+R, burned iso with both Roxio or Nero, and every Sammy drive reads em fine.

It also reads movies fine from dvd+r/rw

[menelik]

well, i tested it with dvd+ and also read a lot about the fact that it just has no dvd+r support. when i remember right even the 616t model itself has no dvd+ feature, maybe your burner set the book type to - ?

[menelik]

ok guys, tutorial and solution posted here,

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=400274

i think that we all have waited long enough for such a drive!

[[H]ackerK]

Ok guys, I performed some experiments today with VRCD and VRDVD.

I can confirm that shorting these two will indeed make a modded 8050L read cd-r, but no longer dvd-r.

Putting a diode across these points either way won't have any impact!

Shorting VRDVD to ground will not change anything.

Shorting VRCD to ground will have the same effect as connecting it with VRDVD.

Are you talking about just the plain orginal 8050 found in the newer XBOX w/o firmware upgrade what so ever? Just shorting those two point will do tricks?

[SpEeDaMiGo]

@[H]ackerK
Sorry if it wasn't clear, but I was talking about a modded 8163B. I don't own the 8050L, got one of those newer Samsung cheap a** drives.

[Stilly82]

After i flashed the drive with the fixed firmware of xbins the led busy of the drive is alway on, is it normal or not???
Thanks for your answer!!!!