TerryMasters
Member
Hard drive replacements - what works and what doesn't
I believe teckkev is having trouble getting his Sportstation working using CF cards, and as luck would have it, I'm having trouble getting mine to work with regular hard drives. I think we need a thread dedicated to what does work and what doesn't, both in methods and in physical media.
I don't know why, but I can't even get the original backup I made to work with the original hard drive I have. So far, I've tried two methods:
1.) chdman -extract filename.chd \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE(x)
and
2.) a) chdman -extract filename.chd filename.raw, then doing b) dd if=filename.raw of=/dev/hd(x)
and neither of them worked for me. I also tried doing these same methods on a 20GB Maxtor and a 40GB WD with no luck. Messing with the jumper settings on the drives didn't do much either. The digital LED on the game board always reads, "d" after the initial power up test.
I seem to be at a total loss. I don't have the CF card adapter, nor a CF card atm so I can't try those yet. I know a few people here have made their own drives, if they read this, how did you make your drive, and what media did you use?
I believe teckkev is having trouble getting his Sportstation working using CF cards, and as luck would have it, I'm having trouble getting mine to work with regular hard drives. I think we need a thread dedicated to what does work and what doesn't, both in methods and in physical media.
I don't know why, but I can't even get the original backup I made to work with the original hard drive I have. So far, I've tried two methods:
1.) chdman -extract filename.chd \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE(x)
and
2.) a) chdman -extract filename.chd filename.raw, then doing b) dd if=filename.raw of=/dev/hd(x)
and neither of them worked for me. I also tried doing these same methods on a 20GB Maxtor and a 40GB WD with no luck. Messing with the jumper settings on the drives didn't do much either. The digital LED on the game board always reads, "d" after the initial power up test.
I seem to be at a total loss. I don't have the CF card adapter, nor a CF card atm so I can't try those yet. I know a few people here have made their own drives, if they read this, how did you make your drive, and what media did you use?