Need some advise about the using of OPL

[RigoHoward]

Hello there i'm really, really sad... today i plug my IDE HDD to organize some games on it and suddenly i see some tiny light from the lower part and then i smell some smoke... as for my agony i saw that was the HDD it was burning!!

Quickly i unplug the whole thing but i can see a little microchip kinda burned... so i need to take a decision now:

1. Try to fix the HDD (i dont know how)
2. Buy another IDE HDD (they are too expensive on these days, for example a 160gb IDEE HDD cost equal than a 500gb SATA2 HDD)
3. Buy a 2.5" 160gb and look for a IDE2SATA working adapter for use with my fat ps2 NA (i look some info and i can find anything decent, just cheap adapters)
4. Buy a RJ45 crossover cable a 500gb HDD for my PC, make a partition to backup some games and use OPL with SMB

Hope you can suggest me what to do now... as for my HDD a minute of silence

[RandQalan]

Here is a possibility just got one myself recently

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?Inv...725050VLAT80-R

and about OPL is just uses any SMB shares so don't need separate partition if you have room on your HD in your pc you could be using it right now.

crossover cable or router is a must thou

[RigoHoward]

Here is a possibility just got one myself recently

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?Inv...725050VLAT80-R

and about OPL is just uses any SMB shares so don't need separate partition if you have room on your HD in your pc you could be using it right now.

crossover cable or router is a must thou

Good news concerning SMB... but about hard drive sadly the shipping cost are too high for me (i live in Chile)

[SP193]

Hello there i'm really, really sad... today i plug my IDE HDD to organize some games on it and suddenly i see some tiny light from the lower part and then i smell some smoke... as for my agony i saw that was the HDD it was burning!!

Quickly i unplug the whole thing but i can see a little microchip kinda burned... so i need to take a decision now:

1. Try to fix the HDD (i dont know how)
2. Buy another IDE HDD (they are too expensive on these days, for example a 160gb IDEE HDD cost equal than a 500gb SATA2 HDD)
3. Buy a 2.5" 160gb and look for a IDE2SATA working adapter for use with my fat ps2 NA (i look some info and i can find anything decent, just cheap adapters)
4. Buy a RJ45 crossover cable a 500gb HDD for my PC, make a partition to backup some games and use OPL with SMB

Hope you can suggest me what to do now... as for my HDD a minute of silence

Sorry to hear that. I remember that something like that happened to me in 2006 with my PC (My 3-month old 80GB Seagate HDD blew up... and I lost all data on it).

Well... this is what I would probably do if I were you: Get a 2.5-in SATA HDD and hook it up to a SATA-to-IDE adaptor that's connected to your NA.

Make sure that the entire HDD + SATA2IDE adaptor can fit into the PS2 before buying them (Make measurements if you can)!!

Of course, if your HDD was still under warranty, you should just return it for free. Otherwise... I won't attempt to fix it, if I were you.

Otherwise, your other option will be to go for SMB.

[RigoHoward]

Well i really aprerciate your help guys, and many thanks for the suggestions, so far this is what i done:

I bought a crossover ethernet cable (2 bucks only) i setup smb parameters for OPL and windows seven on the pc side, i backup some games using usbutils from iseko (thanks man for that wonderful app) and i'm playing using SMB right now

As for my HDD i went to a techinician and he told me that my hardrive probably can be saved replacing the burned component (it supposed to be somekind of power inverter or something like that)

So for now i have the issue temporary solved (but i still want to save my HDD) for now i have to get use to the stuttering (common on SMB) during game movie scenes

Thank you again for your attention.