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Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux | |
| Subject: | need help finding some ps2 stuff | |
| Date: | 2004-03-11 02:26:42 | |
| From: | crdigits | |
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| thats the thing...like Microsoft with the Xbox....sony formats the HD and adds their own little bit of information so that when you install the PS2 linux it communicates with a section of the HD to verify its the one from the kit and not one you went out and bought...its how sony justifies the price acting like its a special HD...when its not...its a crappy Maxtor HD...i know casue i have that same crappy HD lying around somewhere | ||
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need help finding some ps2 stuff
2004-10-12 03:52:42 Sarah_of_PS2Linux [View]
There are many, many, of our users who are using a standard IDE PC HDD in their PlayStation 2 to run Linux. We don't support doing it, but it appears to work for many people.
The reason you can't buy the discs individually is purely operational - it's a lot of cost and work to break up the kits, and we'd be left with a lot of spares if this happened. It'd make more sense to drop the price of the kit, which we've already done once this year.
Sarah Ewen, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe