Well, unfortunately, it looks like 1.0 is dead. Tried to clean it up, and the solder points at both ends are now visibly damaged. where's that head smacking against the wall gif when I need it?
So guess that leaves me with 1.6 #1, and 1.6 #2.
Both have Samsung DVD drives, and the same WD hard drives. So similar, it was hard to tell them apart when trying to do the DVD drive swap.
At least in the working 1.6, with the second unit's DVD drive, it kind of has the inverse problem. DVD drive not wanting to eject out. But when I stick a game in, it does load readily. At least once I get the tray open, I can load a game.
Gave the first attempt at trying to copy a game disc with Chaos theory, and then with XIII. Chaos Theory seems to give an error 112 in the dash almost immediately. But XIII copied and loaded fine.
I guess now I need to know what I have to do if say, I want to use a 2TB hard drive in either of these. And would a hybrid hard drive, or even an SSD work in one of these systems, I wonder?
I also remember reading something about backing up the EEPROM. How would I do that in one of these systems?
Since I basically could scavenge from the 1.0 system, would I be able to use the soft-modded hard drive from the 1.0 system (since it had 10GB instead of 8) on 1.6-2 to get it to boot properly?