Odyssey Hard Drive - anyone try other brands?
cfh:
I know the stock hard drive for the odyssey is a
SCSI Seagate Barracuda ST15150N model, 7200 rpm,
4.3 gig, 9ms, 50 pin. But has anyone ever tried a
different SCSI 50 pin hard drive? Or for that matter,
an IDE with an SCSI 50 pin adaptor?
Slotmaster:
about 5 years ago I tried to get another drive to work and came up empty.
The limitation was SCSI controller but I did not try IDE to SCSI.
Way back when it was easy to get the original drives, I would guess now it's not.
That platform still has games that are better then today's machines to some degree.
cfh:
i don't understand why another 50 pin SCSI drive
with perhaps larger capacity would not work.
what drives exactly did you try?
Neonkiss:
I was speaking to friend in the industry on this topic just the other day after seeing this post.
He advised that he had also tried this a number of years ago but had no success. His thoughts were that there is something weird about the boot sector on the original drive preventing it from copying over to the new drive. He said he would like to try this again with some of the newer imaging copying software now available. It would have to be something that would copy and format bit for bit. Maybe along the line of the newer versions of Ghost.
Maybe RickHunter could elaborate further. He's real good with the computer stuff.
blueridgeslots:
Actually the OEM Drive was a Quantum Viking, but the better one to use was the Barracuda, the Viking didn't go out on the floor, but they didn't lock when powered down from what I was told, and then when they were moved, well..... you needed a new one, once you put the Barracuda in you were good to go, my first dealing with the "Slotmaster" was on eBay buying a drive for one over 10 years ago, still have it today
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