PS2 HDD

Hrm… So I got a Playstation 2 network adapter. The curious thing is, it seems that there are connectors for an IDE hard drive as part of the adapter. It doesn’t fit a Western Digital hard drive that I have, but maybe another? Possibly Quantum… They seem to make a lot of disks for OEM applications like Tivos, etc.

UPDATE: This picture make it look like a Maxtor disk along with a bit of hardware to mount the drive more securely. I just need to see if I have a Maxtor disk around anywhere…

UPDATE PART DEUX: Okay, I should do a little more digging next time. The PS2 Linux dmesg output from this page indicates the following:

PlayStation 2 IDE DMA driver
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xb4000040-0xb4000047,0xb400005c on irq 41
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, 38146MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4863/255/63, (U)DMA

So… Yeah. It is a Maxtor. And since the PS2 Linux kit ships with the same network adapter, all I need to do is find one of these drives. Or any old Maxtor. I wonder what the machine will look like then… Or how the disk needs to be formatted for games to support it… It’d be nice to have the QCast Tuner also support playing from a local disk. It’d be nice to be able to play off of both the network and the local disk. Or imagine if there was support to rip audio right into the local disk… Mmm… I wonder how fast the PS2 would actually be at doing audio compression?