SunDriver IDE ATA

[Lupin3rd]

I just found the SunDriver IDE ATA at a ridiculous price (7.90€): http://www.siliteo.fr/sundriver-ide-ata ... ement.html
Maybe it is can be a good alternative as drive replacement.

I'm wondering if the Sundriver can be handled by Swiss or there are any technical limitation.

[emu_kidid]

Sure, it could be handled by Swiss if it can boot to the menu at least through the real GC menu. Then it'd just need me to buy one and implement it into Swiss. Anyone feel like trying to buy one and then letting me know if it's actually legit from there?

[badsector]

I think I will give it a try.

EDIT: I just ordered two. I will keep you guys updated.

[Lupin3rd]

I also ordered two of them, I expect to receive them by tomorrow.

[Lupin3rd]

I got the boards

[badsector]

Nice! Does the Menu load on GameCube?

[Lupin3rd]

I need to order a cable for powering up the board (http://save-mii.com/ten/product/11/123/ ... Cable.html)

I'm not sure which FW is preinstalled, so I'm think to order also a Nero Dual programmer (http://save-mii.com/ten/product/11/261/ ... -Dual.html)

Do you know if the Injectus (http://save-mii.com/ten/product/11/1527 ... ammer.html) can be used with this board?

[badsector]

No, I have no idea :/

I saw, that you can update the (GameCube based) menu without the programmer, so I just hope, that the preinstalled firmware is okay.

Also: Which version did you get? The screenshots show both versions But I think this is the IDE + CF version, right?

[Lupin3rd]

I received the IDE + CF.
For the moment I can connect the power of the sundriver to the wii... I will check this evening

[badsector]

So, did it work somehow? ^^

[Lupin3rd]

No time to play with it...
I need to postpone for now

[Benni]

i bought some,too...

and now i found out, that there is a sata Version,too....
is there an Adapter from 2,5" ide to sata?

[badsector]

If this is working, my plan is to buy a 128GB compact flash card. Doesn't need extra power and 128GB seem to be enough for most good and okay games on the GameCube ^^

[tueidj]

If this is working, my plan is to buy a 128GB compact flash card. Doesn't need extra power and 128GB seem to be enough for most good and okay games on the GameCube ^^

Good luck with that, the cheap ones start at $200 (anything less will be fake) and the decent ones start at $500.

[badsector]

There are 128GB cards for 80€. I don't think that I will need a high speed card.

http://www.amazon.de/Komputerbay-128GB- ... rds=cf+128

Reviews are decent, 4/5 stars.

[tueidj]

Almost guaranteed to be fake for that price.

[badsector]

Take a look at the link that I just updated.

They seem to be lexar cards, that did not hit the high quality standards. If the card does not work, I send it back to amazon.

[tueidj]

If you check the reviews, they're all basically split into two categories:
- good reviews: people saying it works with their camera and can hold 1000s of photos (duh, so can an 8GB card).
- bad reviews: people saying the cards initially worked but either randomly failed later or during formatting, then became unrecognized/unusable. This is a sure sign of a card overflowing its physical capacity and trashing parts of the NAND that are meant to hold configuration/mapping data.

[badsector]

But on the other hand, you don't put data onto the card every day, when using inside of a GameCube. Most of the time you are just reading data. But maybe you are right. In this case, I will try using an extension/adapter to put a CF slot on the outside of the Cube and use smaller and better CF cards.

http://www.misco.co.uk/product/138599/S ... -Converter

[tueidj]

It wouldn't matter how often the card was written to, it would fail as soon as you try to write beyond the real capacity of the flash memory (which is probably something like 8 or 16GB).
You can get SD<->Compact Flash adapters, performance is a lot worse than using native CF but SD cards are a hell of a lot cheaper.

[badsector]

Thanks for all your input! I will consider how to use the Sundriver as soon as we know if it works

[BenoitRen]

They seem to be lexar cards, that did not hit the high quality standards.

Last I heard Lexar wasn't that good of a brand to start with. At least not for PSP memory sticks.