External (JAP) HDD unit?

**AutoMX** · 07-13-2004,08:33 PM

Anyone know what's inside the little black box? An HD of course but I'm wondering if there is a hardware HDD adapter [a chipset of some kind] or if the HD is plugged in directly to wires that go into the PC card?

Yes I am aware of how slim the chances of someone knowing are but if anyone that has an external HDD unit, let me know. I can't ask anyone to open their unit but if anyone is willing to look inside voluntarily, I would be forever greatful. I'm sure any warrany had long exprired by now

After all, the external HDDs are getting really rare in Japan itself, and just about nonexistant elsewhere.
Thanks.

**bungiefan** · 07-14-2004,03:44 AM

Actually, you're in luck. When my external HDD died and NCSX wouldn't support the warranty on it, I opened it up myself. It's an internal IDE HDD unit without the rails. It's plugged into a circuit board that goes to the wires for the PCMCIA card connection and the power source. There's also a jumper cap with wires coming out of it that goes to the switch on the bottom of the external case, to switch between Master and Slave settings, although Slave is never used with the PS2.

When I looked at the expense of replacing the HDD unit, after determining that the hard drive stil functioned but a circuit inside the casing that the drive attached to had fried, I instead sold my model 10000 and replaced it with a model 30000 and a Network Adapter, and it has been functioning to this day. Therefore, the external casing is just an adapter to hook an IDE hard drive up to a PCMCIA interface.

Unfortunately, I no longer have access to he casing and circuitry of the external unit. I mailed it off to someone in Australia a while ago since they thought they could fix it, and I didn't know about the custom Sony HDD firmware at the time.

**AutoMX** · 07-14-2004,01:29 PM

would this work?

http://www.sycard.com/ext120.html

**bungiefan** · 07-16-2004,07:44 AM

No idea. I can't see the plugs clearly, and don't know what it would be used for.

**AutoMX** · 07-16-2004,08:39 PM

nevermind about the pc card thing, i should be getting a PCMCIA network adapter (no HDD though) relatively soon from japan, so the HDD issue will still be there but at least i'll be able to get online for sure

now i need to sell this [other] damn scph10k

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