How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
- Speeddemon
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How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
Hi newbie here I like to say hello to all I love the uzebox !!! Can anyone here tell me Is there a simple way to hook up a sata laptop small harddrive to the uzebox? Insteed of
using the s.d card slot. whats needed to swap in a harddrive to the uzebox ?
using the s.d card slot. whats needed to swap in a harddrive to the uzebox ?
Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
Say whaaat?! Why would you want to do that! I don't know much about the sata so i can't say. You need more space?
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Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
hi its a idea I had to make uzebox better aka more game storage space n faster game loading .plus I hav a some laptop n netbook harddrives n screens I would like to use on the uzeb ox someday
Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
An uze file won't have more than 60 * 1024 + 512 bytes.Speeddemon wrote:hi its a idea I had to make uzebox better aka more game storage space n faster game loading .plus I hav a some laptop n netbook harddrives n screens I would like to use on the uzeb ox someday
Suppose you have a 1GB sd card:
>>> (1024 ** 3) / (((1024 * 60) + 512))
17331.834710743802
17331 games per card
If you plan on storing something else, then it might be worth it .
Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
Loading time will undoubtably be slower than the sd interface, mainly due to the protocol handling...maybe only bit bang is possible, who knows.
Right now you can get a 64G sd, so i say interfacing a HDD ,although cool and geeky, is perhaps not very useful or practical. But again, who am I to judge, the important is to hack something and have fun doing it!
Right now you can get a 64G sd, so i say interfacing a HDD ,although cool and geeky, is perhaps not very useful or practical. But again, who am I to judge, the important is to hack something and have fun doing it!
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Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
Hi and tys to all who replyed I would think harddrive acc time wounit be to much of.a trad off and having more bufferd ram to boot in the trade off too from adding a hardrive!!!! I want to port other games n emus and see.what can work on the uzebox n make some new games n bring back some good old ones and not having a bunch of s.d cards n money for them a har ddrive is a way better deal and program on the fly ie load from a pc and then plug in the uzebox if any has a way to hook one up to the uzebox ie sch n parts list let me know ty all n pce
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Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
I think. maybe hav away to. can a usb port be added to the.uzebox?
Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
External hard drives I have taken apart actually are sata with a little board to interface with usb. I know there is http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html, but I am not sure it would work with uzebox(it needs an edge triggered intterupt). Seems more "possible" to make an uzebox driver for usb than for sata directly. Not that I know much about such things... but I know enough to say it would be a lot of work; and it would be very cool if someone figured it out
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Re: How do you add a laptop or netbook harddrive to the uzebox?
Hi lee n tys for your reply it would be nice if there was a way to do it I was thinking if the uzebox had a usb port and I used a usb to sata n pata harddrive adaptor tester the ones for hooking up to a pc and testing out harddrives and someone to write the code it might work ?? we just hav to wait n see
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