cirrus1965 Xbox-HQ User Xbox Version: V1.0, V1.5 and Modded: Xenium with 2.3.0
Joined: Aug 02, 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Montreal, CANADA
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: Using ATA-66 IDE 80-pin Cable in XBox...
Hi,
I know for a fact that XBoxes (any version) are shipped with a standard 40-wire IDE cable connecting the HD, to DVD and motherboard. I also know that those hard drives (and the larger sized ones I'm using for upgrades) are of type ATA-66 or even ATA-133. Those new drives usually use an 80-wire cable, which has a ground wire between all data wires, thus increasing possible bandwidth during transfers.
I've replaced my XBox IDE cable with such a 80-wire flat ribbon connector and indeed, the disk access and data transfers seem faster, specially using dvd2xbox and at game startup load.
This is great, however in my XBox v1.0 it seems that if I shutdown the box and restart it too quickly, the hardware don't seem to see the hard-disk!!! (frag with error 07). I've had this case in a v1.6 box as well. If I wait 10 to 15 seconds between reboots, everything seems ok.
Anyone has any ideas as to why this happens? With the original cable, this behaviour doesn't occur at all. I think that there may be some residual capacitive voltage that stays on the cable after shut down, which could f*ck the next reboot... I'm just guessing...
Anyone had this kind of error too????
Thanks!!!
Cirrus1965
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NoseDive911 V.I.P. Lifetime
Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 76 Location: Michigan
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:
I too have replaced my stadard 40 wire ribbon with an 80 but I havn't seen any of the behavior that you are describing on my own box. I'm curiuos to see what the other guys have to say about this.
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Jaelmason Xbox-HQ Enthusiast
Joined: May 28, 2005 Posts: 34
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject:
I had the error with the original hdd, but not with my larger replacment hdd. It seems to depend on the drive and the ribbon. When I used a different cable it worked for both drives.
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