What I have so far
Gots my Sata PCI slot converter and my DVD drive is a Lite-on DG-16D2S FW-74850C.
So far I have a sata port that reads from the drive fine so far except for dumping from it (I don't have a spear/probe/whatever or any of the connections for it).
My Pc is olde (Windows 2K) that I am using for this so does have the olde mouse serial port that seems to be used for probe/spear pcb's.
What I didn't want but tough
Basicly I was hoping to avoid the need for a probe and have run out of cash for a while till I get back on my feet (Just lost a job (end of contract) and no idea when I will get any benifits as I have signed onto JSA so a little stressed over bills) but my luck is out I guess [only good thing about the job thing is that I get to be more active on my fav online home]
Unfortionatly no good at soldering so can't see me making my own probe
What else do I need?
Asides from the probe thing is there anything else (hardware more than software) that is needed to hack up me 360?
Will get to software/other needed files later once I gets hardware out of the way.
Can I loan some things
Any peeps from the UK willing to loan me a probe device (not bothered if it's home made as long as it works) this would be returned as soon as I have hacked up the drive??
If postage is not too much and they are willing anyone outside of the UK would be great also
I believe a probe is only needed once just to dump original firmware ect so would not want to keep one anyway and don't mind paying for postage too much..