PS2 SATA Network Adapter - Overview & Testing with FreeMCBoot
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Within the past year or so I had softmodded a PS2 with FreeMCBoot after tracking down a brand new IDE drive. The problem I had was this hard drive was always a bit flaky and recently ran into a problem in which almost any time I utilized half the space on the drive it would error out on WinHIIP and brick until I reformatted it and started over. Looking into upgrading/replacing the drive I noticed that getting a decently high capacity IDE drive would cost more than it is worth, that's why I went with the route of trying out a third party SATA network adapter.
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If you're wanting to delve into FreeMCBoot and mod up your PS2, here's a guide I made over what I found to be the easiest way to softmod a fat PS2!
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You have to format the HDD with Wiinhip by choosing it first (you get the PS2 format error) and then press the format drive button at the bottom.
hammurabi gonzalez
Nope... But ~95%!
hammurabi gonzalez
Look up OPLCL (Open PS2 Loader Compatibility List)! 😉
If they are not on the list, I would simply try them.
hammurabi gonzalez
Any news? Did you try it?
Forbidden Siren 1&2 does work for me.
hammurabi gonzalez
If I remember correctly, 'rule of rose' had issues in older OPL-Versions, but that might be fixed on newer builds.
Just look up the OPL-Betas or 'daily builds'. 😉
Sometimes there are multiple new revisions 'per day' and sometimes there are no new builds for weeks (very seldom even months).
Maxtor was never, never, ever in his entire life, awesome.
I talk from experience since they manufactured 40MB hard drives. And yes, megabytes.
AFAIK, even 20MB 5.25"-SCSI-HDDs! xDD
Even their stone tablets are bad. They used inferior sandstone that would just fall apart
the good old days when Motorola still made ram sticks
every gamestar adapter has the same serial number lmao
Chino 😂
Maxtor was never awesome. In the late 90's early 00's if a Dell desktop had a bad drive, 99% of the time it was a Maxtor.
XFiX and the second problem would be that's it's from Dell
XFiX
Yep, I agree! Maxtor was just hyped especially by wannabe-I have the best PC-people...(those of the kind, which do not actually know anything/that much about the technology anyway...).
The Maxtor drive that was in my old Gateway lasted over a decade. Only reason we stopped using it for anything was because 10Gb was less than the smallest available pen drive at the time of disinstallation.
I have always been with WD since SATA and before I didn‘t care to much I only owned one IDE PC and 2 Laptops
Absolutely. I worked for a company in the early 00's who used Dell hardware and all the desktop machines came fitted with Maxtor drives, and they all started failing around the same time after about 4 months of use, and I mean all of them. I even remember the drive model number because it was the bane of our lives for so long - 2B020H1. Dell ended up giving our company compensation because of it. As well as this, every other Maxtor drive I've used has also failed in a very short space of time. Maxtor are hot garbage.
You can also buy mod kits to change the original Sony adapter from ide to sata. The conversion is pretty simple and straight forward. The mod works fine with my PS2 and a 1TB WD Blue HDD. One caveat is that the drive is pretty loose and can flop around easily. I used a small folded paper to provide light pressure to fix that.
Not only do games load faster, but there is less wear on the PS2 optical drive.. a common point of failure for that system. It is also nice being able to take 200+ games without carring alot of stuff!
Each game takes 4-8Gb of storage on the console, for reference.
Actually we made some tests around 10 years ago... The result was that from ~250 games the average size-ratio is 2.36/2.4GB! ;)
1TB-HDD could hold around ~380 games in its original form (like on CD/DVD). But PS2-Images often have dummy-files or empty sectors which can be ripped from the image without actually ripping anything of the games content! i.e. Eye Toy Play uses over 4GB as image, but could very simply be ripped onto a CD without excluding or ripping any content... and there are quite some games where you can do this.
Thus even more games are possible and the average file-size of a game probably comes quite close to 2GB. This tests btw. already did include GT4, GoW1+2 and another few DVD9-games!
wait... then how are you able to play games?, i mean, do you need it in the hdd in image format? or cd format? .-.
It's all in a Partition format, so each partition is a game.
Omg I'm using the game star adapter and a 1tb WD blue brand new. Having so many problems. Whenever a game is loading it has a high chance of getting stuck. I think it's the adapter...
FroztiProductions WD had are known to be incompatible with the ps2 get a Seagate or hitachi
Him: Dude Sata II is Overkill for Ps2!
Me: *Gets SSD for Ps2*
How is it? any compatibility issues?
@@Tedlasman
Im using a 240gb samsung 850 from my old pc and it works fine. And yes its faster than a hard drive even in a ps2. Would recommend, 240gb is more than enough for my library anyway.
@@_--_--_ yikes, 750gb ain't enough for me.
@@Tedlasman well nobody is stopping you from getting a bigger ssd. most 1tb ssds are under 100 usd nowadays so it isnt *that* expansive. as far as i know the ps2 supports up to 2tb
I mean, it’s pretty common sense. You’re wasting time messing with mechanical drives.
For future reference, you can use WD drives on the PS2 if you don't mind taking off the metal plate on the adapter.
Huh?
I'm using a WD and it has the metal plate on
@@BavarianM This is only applicable to IDE drives. He mentions it around 2 minutes in.
Yeah that's what I was thinking as I've done it my self
I pulled out a hard drive from an old computer and tried hooking it up to the network adaptor but the pins don't align. It's a Western Digital drive. Is this what you're talking about? I feel like it's misaligned by the slightest bit.
Fun fact: My fat PS2's HDD has a modified version of the PSBBN, a Japan-exclusive official alternate UI for the PS2 used mainly to allow the console to access more online features back in the day (think of it as a precursor to the Xbox 360 dashboard). It's modified to be in English AND has uLaunch-elf preinstalled. It's freaking awesome.
That's awesome, got a link?
I'm SO SORRY for the late reply, but better late than never: www.theisozone.com/downloads/playstation/tools/playstation-2-brodband-navigator-psbbn-custom-install-2013-by-akuhak/
link is down..could you reupload or do an iso??? hopefully it is not much trouble
@@WOSArchives link is down
down
Me: what's wrong with that ps2?? The noises it makes!!!
Mario: it's my 3d printer
I just use a ide to SD card adapter. Works great
Thats cool, going to search that!
do you got any link?
i thought you had to defrag a lot for freemcboot
@@antblaster9k
what do you mean? you cant defrag solid state memory
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If you need an Ethernet adapter you can also modify the original Sony adapter and remove the IDE board and swap it out with a SATA board they sell on Ali Express it works great and I can also stream my PS2 games from my PC if I want to as well as have a way to system link PS2 (In the few titles that support it through ethernet) It also still keeps your adapter looking official as it still has the Ethernet/dial up ports.
I know this is old, but I'm going to add my .02 anyway. I had also had an issue with the power plug spacing on mine. For some reason, there is quite abit of lateral play in the mounts for the power plug. So all I had to do was loosen it up a little and cut the shielding to allow it to move far enough over to plug in. Worked like a charm!
You can also get a SATA plug sub-board that replaces the IDE one in the original Sony network adapter. I think that's the route I will be heading when this drive dies. Having the network connectivity is why I got an original one.
I had one of those WD IDE drives. I was able to use it by taking off the metal shielding plate from the network adapter, and it gave the connectors a little bit of wiggle room to be able to mate up to the HDD.
Many thanks for taking the time to create and share this tutorial!
Not a tutorial, but thanks!
listening while in another tab "don't get these drives they're garbage" tab over to see a larger version of the drive I'm using. well I haven't used more than 50% yet.
Im pretty sure the actual SATA board in those has a chip on a little board converting IDE to SATA, so you could put that little board in the OEM Sony Network adapter (in place of the old IDE board) and have the best of both worlds.
ifrit05
Yepp should work... Unfortunately the SATA-Board is missing the 3.3Volt-line...
These guys sell another board you can replace in the official adapter to do exactly that.
@Alex J
No hard drive uses the 3.3V line. In the early days everyone was powering their SATA drives from the 5V and 12V molex connectors using passive adapters, and so it stuck that nobody put 3.3V rails on their drives to maximize compatibility.
In fact, the 3.3V rail has now been coopted for PWDIS (power disable) in the SATA 3.3 spec, so that if you just put a dumb 3.3V on a hard drive with a PWDIS rail, the drive will not even spin up.
Hey MrMario2011. Do a video on 2tb PS2 interal HDD. Here's how to do it. Get and install the 2TB version of ULE to your PS2. Format the 2TB HDD on the PS2 itself through ULE 2TB. Then hook the HDD to the PC and use HDL_HDD_Batcher_v1 to add games. Remember to separate your DVDs and CDs and do them by themselves.
Alternatively, if you aren't aware, there are kits to replace the IDE interface on the OEM network adapter with a SATA interface. No soldering required, it's impossible to place the cables in the wrong ports interally. I am using such a system no (OEM network adapter, 3rd party SATA kit) and it works great. Simply partially disassemble a few things on the OEM adapter and plug the new item in, then reassemble.
Yep! Those are good.
You can take the metal shield panel off the network adapter and the molex connector on the PS2 network adapter can be moved. SATA is the better way to go though.
I recently got that adapter, I'm having a good time with my also recently bought Ps2 (SCPH 30001, and it's not modded, just FreeMCBoot with a memory card I prepared for my Ps2 slim SCPH 70000 series that has a modchip for a custom UlaunchELF iso to boot or whatever method you can use to install the MC soft-mod), also it's a good thing that I have like 4 or 5 memory cards.
UPDATE July 2nd:
Got the SATA adapter for the PS2. Got the one from Amazon. It came with NO internet connectivity whatsoever; not even a dummy LAN socket. Got a 1 TB SATA drive coming tomorrow. Still waiting for the McBoot memory card with the software. Should be in around mid-July.
My hands are messed up so you better drive, brother.
I'm sure I will never use the phone adapter. As long as it has the LAN connector I'm happy.
Update: I have the SATA adapter, which I bought on Amazon. The unit they sent me has NO internet connection whatsoever. No modem. No LAN. Just a couple small holes behind the yellow sticker. Thankfully, I have no intention of playing PS2 games online (that's what I got the PS3 for); just a few old favorite PSone and PS2 games.
@3:30 The date of this video is 2017. Maxtor went defunct in June 2006. So if you bought any Maxtor harddrive from 2007 onward, then it's either well used or very old stock. The fact that you were still using a 250gb Maxtor harddrive in 2017 is all on you.
Will defintely try this olution. I got an IDE network adapter and didn't know SATA adapter were around. Thanks for the tip ! I hope I'll be able to format and put my backed-up games on it !
I don't know if anyone posted this, but those maxtors are for old set top DVRs from the early to mid 2000s. Your issue is actually a firmware issue. It's stopping you from going into the TimeShifting partition.
I bought this exact adapter and it's been very problematic for me...I get random freezes using OPL from the menu screen and if i'm lucky to boot any game up it just loads really slow or freezes within seconds of gameplay. I had no such issues using my OEM network adapter and Maxtor IDE, works like a charm.
That's 100% an HDD issue.
Are you coincidentally using an old HDD with many hours on it or a junky Seagate / off brand? Answer right there.
The adapter itself is just a bridge interface between your PS2 and an HDD, it's very unlikely to be the culprit.
@@SpurdoMaltese I'm having the same issue , so I pulled out the HDD and it's from 2014. Would you consider it old? Also what would you recommend replacing it with?
@@Worldsworstmechanic I have the same Game Star adapter, brand new HDD and SSD from multiple brands all do not work, booting work with FMCB from the drive but OPL or anything else won't start, tested on 2 different PS2's
you can buy the SATA port module alone and replace the IDE port in the network adapter! and have the network functionality enabled
I'm using a Maxtor in my PS2 right now, and the moment I heard the words come out of your mouth, I knew your problem was not with Maxtor.
The PS2 does not do well with 48-bit LBA. You need to do complicated patches that, from my experience, don't work well at all. The reason that Maxtor gets corrupted at 50% is the same exact reason Windows 98 would lose its shit processing data at 50%.
For anyone aspiring to do a soft/hardmod PS2, DO NOT BUY A HARD DRIVE BEYOND 137 GB. SATA or otherwise, patched or not, you'll only struggle. If you need more than 137 GB, look into doing a network share or buy a USB hard drive. Yes, USB 1.0 is trash, but I'd rather have slower load times than reformatting my hard drive because I made a mistake in capacity.
I'm going to respectfully say you're incorrect on that, I've used multiple other drives bigger than 137 GB with no issues. I have a 1 TB in my PS2 that I use regularly, 0 issues adding games to it or playing off the thing. The only drives I've messed with that require any complicated patching as you've mention have been 2 TB.
The Maxtor drive was hot garbage, let it die 🙃
MrMario2011
He would be correct, if we were still in 2006 or for the HDD-OSD in 2010-2011, but it is 2018 and no one has to fiddle around with patches or anything...
However you should not use more than 1TB, because only very few apps (wLE, OPL, HDD-OSD?, etc.) support 32Bit-adressing instead of 31Bit-adressing... (so doubling the addressable sectors on the HDD)
yes, just take out screws on the network adapter. western digital fits and works.the silver plate just gets in the way
I just unscrewed the shielding on the adapter and removed the screws for the molex connector and forced the ribbon cable to fit. Worked for a few weeks before my SATA adapter came in.
I know im late to this but recently i've been fixing and old PS2 from scrap yard without any accessory so i bought it and got this sata network adapter and that yellow sticker said "Do not connect phone line" but when i took it off there actually isnt any port to plug it in which makes it a little funny so this one i got is just for hard drive.
The PS2 SATA Games Star part vs. the Original SATA mod board is speed of constant data transfers. You will see lagging on some games and some HHD drives. Just passing it along.
Sadly got my SATA Game Star before I know this for half the price of original - not smart. Tested with only one game so far - Stuntman and it ran well, loading times were 2 times faster than original DVD and no freez in like 1 straight hour. I will get the original eventually if I get issues.
You can get the WD drives to fit. Remove that bottom "plate" and you can snip the board to right of power interface. No board traces there. The power then has enough "slack" to reach. 👍 I swap between 3 different drives, 1 dedicated to PS1 POPS.
Whats the highest capacity for the HDD to work on the PS2?
Tech James
Currently 2TB, but some PS2-Software is limited to 1TB.
On a side note, only Software which is 48Bit-LBA-patched works with these kind of big HDDs. Else it is at about 128GB/137GiB.
Deltax5
You are correct in regard to WinHIIP being limited to ~255 (possibly 253 or 254) games and programs like 'HDL Dump helper GUI' don't have that limit. However, WinHIIP and possibly all other apps on PC too, are still limited to 1TB, AFAIK!
A lot software on the PS2 doesn't support more than 1TB as well.
damn... my dream of having a ps2 with the whole system library in the internal hdd... broken :,(
You can still look at a portable HDD with a network adaptor.
I have one with 500gb sata i have 135 games install plus modchip i can play burn games or transfer that burn game in to my internal harddrive using hdloader. Then play it on opl. Now im looking for ps3 jailbroken.
not caring about betwork connectivity?, are youn nuts?! how the hell im going to play battlefront 2 and socom then?
Jokes aside, network loading of games, as well as transferring games from PC to PS2 over the network are very very useful features. Pulling apart your PS2 to add a new game is annoying as hell.
Pros of LAN on a PS2:
-installing and extracting games from and to internal HDD via LAN
-streaming games (PS1&PS2) from LAN (or from the internet, if you have a server online and can modify your router to show that folder in your LAN as an SMB-Connection, for example by connecting via VPN)
-Start applications from LAN via OPL (currently no other apps, which can load APPS from LAN, AFAIK)
-Stream movies/music/etc. from LAN
-Internet-Radio (for example via 'MyPS2'-App)
-playing games online, either via recreated servers, or via xLink-Kai
-better development-environment, where you can easily start fresh compiled applications just directly via command from PC or remotely control your PS2 via PS2Link!
It's better to find a way to use the original adapter, you can do everything via LAN, even copy your memory card saves.
@@tnaplastic2182 what ide drives are compatible?
I'm actually a fan of the FHDB and booting my installs through the hdosd or whatever, makes me feel like I'm using some sort of advanced prototype stuff using planed upgrades that never really officially saw the light of day.
Got one of these coming in the mail today, the Sata adaptator
Nice coincidence! Just got one last week, works like a charm!
I'm using the same Gamestar adapter and when I load up a game, it'll run fine but then it'll frequently freeze for almost a whole second like its trying to load something. How do I fix this? Is it a problem with the adapter or is there a setting in OPL I need to change to fix this? The HDD I'm using is brand new and compatible as well.
It's the gamestar adaptor causing this prob. Change game compatibility to mode1. That'd fix
Thanks for this video brother. I was thinking about doing the samething because I figured the games would load so much faster and if I get a usb adaper for the sata drive, I can hook it to the computer and install the games a lot faster that way as well. So thanks again for the video man. You're AWESOME! lol
nice.
I had my original ps2 running a HDD back in like 2006 and haven't kept up with things after selling it.
got nostalgic and this is super convenient.
I took the metal shielding off of the network adapter and loosened the IDE and Molex connectors to get it to connect to my Western Digital drive and put tiny rubber feet on the bottom of the HDD to absorb vibration (not sure if it helps or not...) it has been working fine since about 2010
Someone needs to make an adapter that has both sata and working network ports.
I remember buying a network adapter for my PS2, and never getting to use it. Only online gaming I experienced as a kid was Starcraft and Sega Channel.
You can use western digital drives on it with the stock adaptor. You just have to unscrew the bottom 2 screws and bend the metal on the bottom to where it breaks off so that the ports will line up. Just have to be careful that the ribbon cable doesn't tear.
Manufacture date 13JUL2006? I'm surprised it stored anything.
But man the thought of being able to use my PS2 without frying the HD has me happy.
I own this exact adapter. It seems to work great, and I've run all kinds of games for the PSX, PS2, simulated games, etc. I also run all of my homebrew software on it (I use FMCB on a memory card though).
Hey @MrMario2011 I’ve recently had an issue occur with my adapter not being able to read my HDD despite it being a new hard drive. It gives me an error saying 221: HardDisk Drive not detected. I checked the website for it’s compatibility and it is compatible. I also have ulaunch 4.43 downloaded. My ps2 is a 39001 model and I have FMCB 1.953
Try other hdd. If fails, try other adapter. If still issue persists, then ps2 hdd slot defected
I have the original network adapter, and I installed an upgrade to connect a SATA HDD. It works fine.
I remember my dad was pissed cause he had to shell out an extra 30-40 bucks for a 8mb memory card when he brought me a ps2 lol
I had the issue of my hard drive not quite fitting to the OEM sony network adapter. The ports are designed to have some wiggle room to help them fit different drives, but the wiggle is reduced by the metal shroud. You can cut a bigger slot for the IDE port or remove the shroud entirely and you can get just a bit extra room that may make all the difference.
I don't know if getting an adapter for the PS2 is a good idea or not. Something tells me I am worried about how it wouldn't work the way I'd expect it to work.
Older Seagate drives i find to be mostly reliable, so i won't really need the SATA Conversion yet,
Thanks for pointing out those Maxtor drive's being dodgy!...i have one i back Operating system ISOs onto!
My PS2 isn't detecting my HDD, and I have the exact same adapter. Is this a problem you or any else had??
Is it the gamestar sata adapter?
@@sparki2494 are you using a fmcb memory card, or did you install FHDB?
@@boborton4652 Yes
@@sparki2494 maybe a connection came loose. Try removing it, install it to your pc to see if the pc can detect the drive, then reinstall it back into ur ps2.
@@sparki2494 could be a fault with the hard drive itself. Do u have your games backed up? U could try reformating ur hd rerunning winhip and opl manager to import a game on as opposed to ur whole library to see if that fixes the issue. Im not sure if the hdd adapters ever have issues though. Are you using an oem adapter or a game star one?
God that load speed
Vvveeemmmm done
i had a samsung 500gb that outright died on me when i attempted to use it on my ps2, the hitachi 80gb which works flawlessly will have to do until i get another 500gb drive. the 500gb drive was free anyway
samsung ssd or hard drive?
you can use a western digital drive , just cut the shielding and maximize the space between the molex and ide connector while pressing it on the hard drive , takes a few tries but works ..
Really love your vids Mario! How does it fair up till now?
Been working well.
Cool. As a dumb kid I broke the front plastic in order to swapdisk :l. Definitely gonna buy another and do this. Might mod the aliexpress one with an ethernet port. Doesn't seem hard.
great video. i had a 320gb ide using the ide gamestar network adapter then i went and got a 1tb sata drive with the sata gamestar adapter.
Looking back, this was after Maxtor was bought by Seagate, that's what happened.
Your comment about the limiting of 2.5 inch drives is wrong you can get a full size drive in SATA and it will fit the same as an old IDE drive.
he only said that he didn't want to use a 2.5 inch cuz it would flop around inside. he's using a full size SATA in the video
I've been waiting for these for the past decade and I totally missed this being out at all. The ide drives are so easy to die out and aata are just faster and more stable. And easier to find. I have a 500gb I want to drop in not PS2 when I get my hands on this
I really wish that thing's Ethernet port was real.
I added a 750gb ide hard drive to my ps2 last year. I had an old pc dedicated to ripping my games to it. It's way faster to use a pc still took me like a week to do them all. Also games on the hard drive are region free so it makes it easier to collect out of region ps2 games. I got Pal copies of Rule of Rose and Gregory horror show for really cheap. Both play in 60hz and are in english
SATAn rulez 😏 thank you for the video Mr. Mario!!
Hail SATAn.
I'm going to add an SSD to see how flawless the games will load on the PS2.
Unfortunally it doesn't seems to work with Seagate 1TB 1000XXX series of HDDs.
actually im using a WD drive, if you cut from the metal shielding,or in my case, i used a fake network adaptors shielding wich is wider around the connector, it can be used
mmm this is such a badass device, slap a SATA 3 SSD in there, and then watch in amazement
Bruh, the SATA2 drive is already overkill 😹
yeah, that was awesome loading times, this item is definitely on my Christmas list
sata adapter with a ssd removed from the case is good. Super light
Great video!!
I was considering to pick that adapter, but a network adapter where the network option doesn't work is... frustrating.
Maybe it was just your piece that had this problem, no?
Carlos Barreto I read that there's no more online support for ps2 since since 2016. I think they made it purely for people that want to play iso games locally
Andy Benson Well, the official servers are dead, but it's still possible to play on private servers in the PS2. Take a look at PS2 Online Gaming on Facebook.
You can use the WD's you just need to mod the network adapter with a pair of tin snips
Okay, so the Gamestar version works, good to know man, thanks
Robert Johnson
Yep, it even works with the newest OPL-Betas!
This is a awesome idea thank you for your honesty
Thanks for watching!
I'm surprised that an SSD works flawlessly with this mod
I've usually had good luck with Maxtor drives, mostly the DiamondMax Plus 8 ones.
no
I'm using a Wester Digital 320Gb Caviar SE 3200AAJS
Good drive and it's fast and quiet
you can mod the oem one, but it takes away the network connectivity i heard. idk why, but it does apparently.
You can pretty easily mod the Sony PATA network adapter to work with the WD drives. You probably already know about it. But I did this a lot back in the day. Screw that Maxtor garbage.
Very cool! I want to do this to mine! Just need a good tutorial. If anyone finds one, I would be very thankful
if you could link it
Do cutscenes still stutter on Opl ? I used to connect an external drive to my ps2 but the games were unplayable when there was a cutscene.
USB is the worst method for PS2, that's why. HDD and network loading are the best.
antoclass the USB ports on the PS2 are USB1 and playing a game through those just isn't going to work well. The read speeds just aren't on par with USB 2 or 3.
What happens when you put a SSD in it? xD
Try it! ;)
TnA Plastic what happens?
@@alexordaz9817
What should happen? Just the same, as if you put an HDD inside...
TnA Plastic Thanks for your reply dude :D
@@alexordaz9817
Just make sure, that either the SSD doesn't use the 3.3Volt-line, or that the adapter has a working 3.3Volt-line.
The LAN port would work along with the IDE HDD? Would it work with those recent SATA boards swapped for the IDE (and the LAN still functional)?
Only if you have an original.
@@MrMario2011 Yeah I will, looked after one 40 bucks + ~20 the SATA board. Will see. Thx man, and great videos you make :)
Definitely the best way to softmod a PS2. Heck there's even a hard drive image you can use on any hard drive to get up and running very quickly.
I've done the mod and its really nice not having to swap discs to play something different.
True that, made a video covering it as well! ruclips.net/video/pO5DmaXKZ0c/видео.html
if you look at it theirs no pins to connect to the internet so thats probably why they had the sticker over it and the lable warned you about lol
My experiences with Maxtor drives were usually positive (I've had more dead Samsung, Seagate and WD drives percentage wise), but I found that the power connector pins on most models were bad and that would lead to hdd failiure. I've had 3 Maxtor drives that needed a custom job resoldering of the power pins, one just fell off when pulled out of the machine, the others had motors powering off at random (the click of death).
All 3 never had issues after a bit of touchup on the power pins, one 120GB lasted me for 11 years and got resold in a retro machine, one is still in one of my retro machines, and the third I burned the electronics on with a bad IDE to USB adapter, only to recently replace the board and have it run flawlessly (its funny to have a hard drive that old that has such little working hours, its at around 450h after 14 years :D).
The power pins on all of those were worse made than the pins on the cheap chinese extension cords I ended up using as the pin donors, extremely thin and flimsy.
Interesting to hear, I've worked with Maxtor drives that were just fine. They were tough enough to the point where they literally broke rocks! One day a friend of mine needed some hard drives destroyed so we took several out of old machines he had and broke them the best we could. All sustained quite a bit of damage but the Maxtor didn't look too beat up, and ended up breaking at least a couple rocks.
yes the only drive I've have, not septal fails with, Seagate , apart from one that a of bootup- just made a continues tick-tick noise, and nothing else, assumed, head's had failed, about 6 months, later, youtube recommended, video suggesting it a firmware, bug , and it just needed reflashing with software, only about 5 mounth to late 😠,so that one was ok too.
i got a bunch of western digital hard drives. i love that brand. i have nothing bad to say. i got a 2-500gig, 1tb, 2tb and a 6tb hard drives from western digital. all good here!
NIC ROOD
That does not change the fact, that they used a non-standard-spacing between the Molex-Power-Connection and the IDE-Port and thus WesterDigital-IDE-HDDs simply do not match the adapter's connections, if you don't modify the adapter...
Oh... and 2TB only works for very few apps on a PS2 and bigger drives won't work at all!
Thanks for the heads up on how crappy the ide hard drive is!!!!
What are the transitions between different areas of the city like in GTA 3 off of the hard drive? I was never bothered by them back in the day but they annoy the hell out of me now.
i had the same problem with my samsung portable T5 i herd it could ether bad sectors or there lying about the amount of space on it
IT's a dummy Ethernet Port unfortunately
Look out some Gamestar Network Adapters are Missing the Network Port for XLinkKai Support.....😑
Sadly, yep
I know this vid is old af now, but did you ever open up the Gamestar and see if you could do a transplant of the SATA board over into the OEM Network adapter? I'm planning on getting the OEM soon, but the SATA boards I know would work are all month waits, and I could order a Gamestar and have that delivered tomorrow...
Never tried opening it myself.
i just got 2 of them in the mail from the aliexpress link and neither work :(
now that sata network adapter would be better if it also gave the ps2 wifi capability
I use the original network adapter with a Seagate IDE drive, can’t remember the capacity, but it’s 300+ GB. It definitely is noisy and does get warm, but it works. I have an IDE/USB adapter to transfer games using hdl_dump gui. I use FHDB and it has a slower boot time than using FMCB with an MC. I think I may get a IDE/SATA adapter some day and use an SSD, or 2.5 SATA drive to keep it cooler and quieter. Plus, who knows how long my refurbished IDE drive will last?
me watching this after buying the wrong one lol
On your original adapter, doesn't the power socket slide to allow fitting of different drives? My HDD docking station does.