technoob

it seems that that may be right, I just need the startech and the new cables since the one I have is just too short and it's not going to work anyway with any adapter I have since they all have all pins. yeah, i miscalculated, I thought they were 21 in the row so to have 10 pins on both sides but they're actually 9 on the left and 10 on the right. pretty strange. yeah ok, nothing surprising, I've always been a disaster in algebra, but I don't think I'll buy anything, I mean, if I get the money from the console I'm selling I might as well buy a new PC to emulate it all with Xemu, which is probably the best thing for me. well thanks for clarifying things out. now at least I know what to do. btw: fyi, consider that here in Italy the adapter doesn't cost just 20$ it costs 40€ (around 50$) same goes for cables and other stuff, just to help you figuring out why I'm so reluctant.

we have different drives, that's the point. there's no "i'm right, you're wrong / i say the truth, you lie " look at it carefully and mind that I tried once to connect the other cable and messd with a couple of those pins. and sorry for the blurry images, I was just too pissed to keep the focus, if that makes you happy.

By official I meant "the things you guys say" ... geez... let's just get over it. You don't need to waste time taking pics and I'm not arguing with anyone.

just checked. all pins are there. some are even retracted god knows why, possibly my past attempts to make it work with my old windows pc cable at the time I had the green bogus adapter. really, let's just quit it at the moment, I'll be back when I have enough money to waste and follow the official guides and reccomendations.

Dude, just give up, I don't need to show the pics and we don't need to go like yes/no/yes/no forever.

As said before, there would be still the problem of the DVD drive that has all the pins on both rows. Withouth the DVD drive I can't install Evox which runs on CD so it's all pointless. I know and I trust that, I just have logic doubts to solve.

ok the adapter can connect to that because it seems it missed the pin in the middle, but what about the dvd drive ? it has all the pins

yes they do. all pins on both rows, both the dvd and hard drives I got have them. no missing pin in the middle. also the adapter is the same so how am I supposed to use the cable that misses a hole in the middle?

simply all drives and adapters have all pins on both rows, how am I supposed to use the cable with the missing hole in the middle? as regards jumpers on sata drives, what about this ?

what about the blank pin in the middle of that cable?

I'm using the default cable of the Xbox, which worked both with the original hdd and others "upgraded" larger hdd even if I get one, there's still that master/slave thing which is impossible to know with the adapter I bought, according to the seller it was used with a usb 2.0 network station. really, people need to sell adapters in bundle with cables and make it economically accessible, I think I have wasted enough time, patience and money already. already put the consoles on sale anyway... so it's not like I'm that interested anymore...

yep, reading on various reviews on amazon, it seems like it wasn't made for devices with more than 1 drive. case solved, this adapter sucks and I lost my money.

Then why the other green adapter didn't work as it had master/slave jumper?

can't the designation be done on the hdd itself?

meh I knew I wasted money. just trying the new OGXBOX installer and if it doesn't work, I think I'm going to sell it all, I'm officially done with it.