{"id":5383,"date":"2003-01-19T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2003\/01\/19\/ps2-hdd\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:15","slug":"ps2-hdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2003\/01\/19\/ps2-hdd\/","title":{"rendered":"PS2 HDD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm&#8230; 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&#8217;t fit a Western Digital hard drive that I have, but maybe another? Possibly Quantum&#8230; They seem to make a lot of disks for OEM applications like Tivos, etc.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/playstation2-linux.com\/Linux_kit.jpg\">This picture<\/a> 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE PART DEUX: Okay, I should do a little more digging next time. The PS2 Linux dmesg output from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pat.hi-ho.ne.jp\/kyonekura\/linux\/ps2\/ps2_2.htm\">this page<\/a> indicates the following:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"courier\" size=2>PlayStation 2 IDE DMA driver<br \/>\nhda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive<br \/>\nide0 at 0xb4000040-0xb4000047,0xb400005c on irq 41<br \/>\nhda: Maxtor 4D040H2, 38146MB w\/2048kB Cache, CHS=4863\/255\/63, (U)DMA<\/font><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; 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&#8230; Or how the disk needs to be formatted for games to support it&#8230; It&#8217;d be nice to have the QCast Tuner also support playing from a local disk. It&#8217;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&#8230; Mmm&#8230; I wonder how fast the PS2 would actually be at doing audio compression?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm&#8230; 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&#8217;t fit a Western Digital hard drive that I have, but maybe another? Possibly Quantum&#8230; They seem to make a lot of disks for OEM\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,25,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-electronics","category-games","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16248,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/16248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}