Option To Load HD1

[xnamkcor]

Is this something I can do with a custom compile?
Is this homebrew still being updated?
If no to the first and yes to the second, would the developer be interested in adding support for reading from a second HDD?

I understand this relies on the PS2 being able to even have a second HDD, but I find it hard to test such things when no homebrew supports reading from it and as far as I can tell there are none with CLIs so I can type it in. If there is, and there is a pre-compiled binary, that would be helpful too.

[coolguyxp]

For the hardware side, could you somehow splice the ide and power into two connectors?

[spud42]

NO. you can not splice the IDE cable into two.

you can use up to 1Tb drive in a PS2, difficulty is now getting one..... best bet is to use a SATA to IDE . still 1 TB limit........

[SP193]

You can, however, either make an adaptor to connect a normal IDE cable to the NA or solder the IDE cable to the NA...

But why would you want 2 HDDs? No software supports it, not even software from Sony. A lot of work will be involved to add hdd1: support.

The TOOL might support multiple disks on each IDE channel it has, but it runs with PS2LINUX and not only with the regular PS2 IRX modules that games come with.

I do imagine that Sony did intend the SCPH-10000 line of consoles to support multiple disk units at some point in time, since the SCPH-20400 HDD unit has a unit number selector at the bottom... but that was never used at all.