Pre-Release AMC DDH unit help

[famiac]

Hello, i recently bought an amc ddh unit, and it's the kind with the phone cable style controllers. It powers up but i have no idea how to use it... Could someone please clarify how to boot it? Also how would i access the contents of the hard drive? Does anybody know where i can find the software and drivers to boot it?
Thanks.

[splith]

You got it off ebay I presume?
If it's the ebay listing one, the display showed E which means Error/missing boot files. You'll need to install the DDH files for your hardware release version (which will NOT be HW2!) and (with the cables all connected) move the .abe files over to the root of the DDH unit. Then upon restart of the PC and DDH you should see an 8 on the display with a flashing dot.
To actually use the system, you'll need a null modem serial cable and a COM port on your PC, and a network connection between the DDH and your PC (direct using a crossover cable works best), and the marlin board installed with all drivers and the DDH software installed, then you can use the marlin commands to boot the files on the hard drive, if there's anything on there.
EDIT: Also just read the other post, you can plug the drive in to a normal PC if you want, it's formatted as FAT and can be read in windows and linux, though if the machine is displaying E then either the drive is broken, corrupted or someone removed the boot files from it. If it's been formatted/deleted then you can try file recovery software on it. Having the drive connected directly to your PC isn't that much different from having it in the DDH unit with it all connected up fine, both communicate via IDE and both appear as fully accessable hard drives, except you need to disable DMA if using it in the DDH.

[ASSEMbler]

First, do you have an pc host card? If not, you'll need one.

[famiac]

You got it off ebay I presume?
If it's the ebay listing one, the display showed E which means Error/missing boot files. You'll need to install the DDH files for your hardware release version (which will NOT be HW2!) and (with the cables all connected) move the .abe files over to the root of the DDH unit. Then upon restart of the PC and DDH you should see an 8 on the display with a flashing dot.
To actually use the system, you'll need a null modem serial cable and a COM port on your PC, and a network connection between the DDH and your PC (direct using a crossover cable works best), and the marlin board installed with all drivers and the DDH software installed, then you can use the marlin commands to boot the files on the hard drive, if there's anything on there.
EDIT: Also just read the other post, you can plug the drive in to a normal PC if you want, it's formatted as FAT and can be read in windows and linux, though if the machine is displaying E then either the drive is broken, corrupted or someone removed the boot files from it. If it's been formatted/deleted then you can try file recovery software on it. Having the drive connected directly to your PC isn't that much different from having it in the DDH unit with it all connected up fine, both communicate via IDE and both appear as fully accessable hard drives, except you need to disable DMA if using it in the DDH.

I did get mine on ebay but no it was not the one with an E on the front. It displays an 8 with a flashing dot as you described so the files are fine. I don't know how to do any of what you just said. and @ASSEMbler, where can i get a PC host card? Thanks for the help guys.

[ASSEMbler]

The host cards are impossible to find.

[splith]

Was it not http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nintendo-D...item519deac87a ?
The bottom picture shows the marlin card.

[famiac]

Nope, but i got mine from the same seller but it didnt have a marlin board... Mine came with 2 controllers. And this one has both the rca style output system and the snes/n64/gc multiav port while mine only has the latter.

[splith]

Try contacting the seller and seeing if he has any marlin boards or can get any, because otherwise you really have a huge paperweight. And if yours hasn't got the RCA plugs it's newer than the model in the auction above.