Sega Saturn SKC-1000C HDD Dump

Discussion in 'Sega Saturn Programming and Development' started by CoolMod, Oct 15, 2014.

  1. CoolMod

    CoolMod Robust Member

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    So I bought another one of these and it was complete. Meaning it included the amp, cd changer, wireless touch controllers, etc. Need to change the laser on the drive since it's dead apparently...however I decided to rip the HDD to see if there was anything that anyone would be interested in. Also for anyone that has one of these, I would back-up your HDD asap as the entire system will not boot without a working hdd.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjrh42fz6suqygm/SKC-1000C Backup.rar?dl=0

    (The HDD is 500mb and only 200ish is used haha)
     
  2. Druid II

    Druid II Officer at Arms

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    Thank you very much for this! I'll try it out once I get the chance. The last image you posted was actually full of errors and had to use chkdsk on it to recover most of the files - after that, it was enough to get a machine to boot, but it did not play any karaoke songs. I hope this one has less errors and can actually play the karaoke songs.

    The drive laser was dead in my unit as well, but after re-calibration it now works fine. If you have a 20pin Saturn, you can calibrate the drive faster with that, as the SKC is so massive and boots up so slowly.
     
  3. CoolMod

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    Yeah, for this one I just ripped the files directly off the HDD, so it should be complete. Although I'm not quite sure how to make a back up of the unit...I tried cloning the drive to another scsi drive, but it failed to boot. Is there some sort of scsi settings I should be looking for?
     
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  4. Druid II

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    That last HDD clone image someone uploaded (was it you?), that one was of a dead unit, the image could be restored but resulted in a drive with a broken filesystem. I had to manually extract the files off the image and copy them to the drive afterwards. So I'm fairly sure that the drive can be replaced just by copying the files to a new drive (drive models don't seem to matter either, I put a 2gb Seagate in it), however as they are SCSI units, you have to make sure the SCSI ID is set up right. Setting that up is different from drive to drive.

    I'll try copying your files to the system later this week.
     
  5. CoolMod

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    Ah, got it. It was supposed to be on SCSI ID 0 and SCSI Term On.
     

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