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Help building an IDE ribbon switch

Help building an IDE ribbon switch

Help building an IDE ribbon switch

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alrighty, I figure this is as good a place to find help for this as any, so here'goes - it'd be easier to figure out exactly what I'm talking about by going here: http://www.mauisun.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=62308

but failing that I'll say again:

after reading the problem with the IDE ribbon on the xbox I had a bit of an idea - would it be possible to, after the dvd slot on the IDE, to put it a sort of switch board type thing? sort of like how the xtender itself works, only with IDE ribbons instead? So you have a short IDE running from the xbox to the dvd to the switch board, then on the switch board you have 3 IDE slots, there would have to be a connection directly to the X-Tender so that when you push the HDD1 button the switch board closes channels to the other two slots, and leaves IDE slot 1 open. That would completely eliminate any interferance from the other drives, you would just have 3 ribbons instead of 1.

Now I've been shown products that do this before, but a) the only remotely usable one is friggin expensive as hell, and the other needs a PCI slot (which M$ dosn't supply with xbox ^_^)

Thank you for your help!

Ryan

RE: Help building an IDE ribbon switch

You may need to be a bit clearer on your question. The link you have provided leads to a 'members-only' site. If this is a professional engineering question, then please clarify and/or post a proper link. If it's a home games box question, then do a google for 'xbox extender'

Good Luck
johnwm
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