Alright, so I finally got my old IDE computer out of storage - it's a Dell Dimension 2350 and the "Pause" trick while it's on the BIOS does seem to work perfectly fine, it'll stop the RAM testing until I press space.
However, I simply cannot get the hard drive to work with XboxHDM. I have tried literally everything - right now I have it stripped down to the bare minimum, my DVD drive is plugged in as a slave, and the hard drive is being plugged in as a master (both set by jumpers)
I have two xboxes, one of them is screwed up which is why I need to get this trick to work. However, using my "Virgin" system that doesn't have any mods or anything wrong with it... if I turn it on and hotswap, the XboxHDA disc sees it but says the drive is still locked. I have also tried playing a CD off the hard drive, pausing the song, then swapping the cables... still says it's locked. I have tried plugging it in after booting XboxHDA, while the BIOS is paused, everything. Both Xbox hard drives show the drive as being locked.
Does anyone know why this is happening? I was told the method where you play music off the hard drive, pause the song, then swap the cables was a foolproof way to do it. Given that the drives are being recognized by XboxHDA during boot, and I can see the ST-whatever model number of it, I don't think it's a problem with the motherboard not seeing the drive...
However, I simply cannot get the hard drive to work with XboxHDM. I have tried literally everything - right now I have it stripped down to the bare minimum, my DVD drive is plugged in as a slave, and the hard drive is being plugged in as a master (both set by jumpers)
I have two xboxes, one of them is screwed up which is why I need to get this trick to work. However, using my "Virgin" system that doesn't have any mods or anything wrong with it... if I turn it on and hotswap, the XboxHDA disc sees it but says the drive is still locked. I have also tried playing a CD off the hard drive, pausing the song, then swapping the cables... still says it's locked. I have tried plugging it in after booting XboxHDA, while the BIOS is paused, everything. Both Xbox hard drives show the drive as being locked.
Does anyone know why this is happening? I was told the method where you play music off the hard drive, pause the song, then swap the cables was a foolproof way to do it. Given that the drives are being recognized by XboxHDA during boot, and I can see the ST-whatever model number of it, I don't think it's a problem with the motherboard not seeing the drive...