Topic: 137+gb Hdd Support For Evox Bios? (Read 158 times)

vjreddy12 · « **on:** December 07, 2003, 03:44:00 PM »

Hi there,

Try searching.........and yes it does.

kilroy1 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2003, 10:22:00 PM »

Just be careful using any drives larger than 250GB.
There are a couple threads in the backups forum that you should read. One of the threads I started. They have to do with file system corruption if you exceed ~ 250GB on a single partition.

I've asked for someone to make a sticky warning post in these forums, but for some reason no one will.

-Kilroy

heinrich · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2003, 04:24:00 AM »

QUOTE (Traian2003 @ Dec 8 2003, 12:09 AM)

It does.

I believe it's version 2.5.

Traian2003

what?!?! I think you thinking of SLAYERS 2.5, cause the evox 2.5 BIOS, (notice he asked about a bios) is rather old and def. does not support lba48.

ok, cromwell has supported lba48 for a LONG TIME... at least a year. You can patch the evox bios to support it with xbtool, its not hard to do, and quite frankly, if you cant figure it out, you dont deserve all that hard drive space in your xbox

And you posted this in the evox dash forum, so I am moving to the bios forum...

Ghettofreeryder · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2003, 08:16:00 AM »

Almost any bios, if not all, will support lba48, all you have to do is modify it using xbtool

muddy · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2003, 07:44:00 AM »

Does anyone know? I currently have M7 loaded on my xbox and am using a 120 giger but want to upgrade.

Heykrop · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2003, 08:01:00 AM »

You are looking at it as M7 does not natively have LBA48 patching. If you want to go to a larger drive you will need to apply the LBA48 patch to M7 using XBTOOL. There are a couple of options for the LBA48 patch in XBTOOL so you will need to decide which one best suits your needs.

muddy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2003, 09:33:00 AM »

Does any other Bios natively have LBA48 patching? If so, do you think I should flash to another bios?

lookformeb · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2003, 10:25:00 AM »

I think the X2 4979 REPACK does...

The Dave man · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2003, 12:22:00 PM »

I'm still a bit confused about one thing though. I'm understanding that there are a few methods to use a 137+GB HDD. First, your bios supports LBA48. Second, if it doesn't, you can use a G: drive partition to store the rest of the HDD space after it exceeds 137GB. Then there's XBTool...and what's Slayer 2.5?

Ghettofreeryder · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2003, 01:13:00 PM »

Lba48 supports hard drives up to 2^48 bytes or about 2.2 terabytes(i think, my math or info might be wrong)

The Dave man · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2003, 04:39:00 PM »

So if I patch EvoX M7, I wouldn't need to create a G: partition, I could just have everything in the F: one?

NghtShd · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2003, 05:55:00 PM »

QUOTE (The Dave man @ Dec 9 2003, 09:39 PM)

So if I patch EvoX M7, I wouldn't need to create a G: partition, I could just have everything in the F: one?

That's right. However, if your drive is 300GB or more then you'll want to have it partitioned into F & G, because there is a filesystem problem with partitions over ~280GB. You may also want to use a G partition for the part of the disk over 137GB if you already have a F which goes up to the 137GB limit and you don't want to lose the data on that partition.

The Dave man · « **Reply #12 on:** December 10, 2003, 11:52:00 AM »

Well, I'm planning my mod for summer 2004, so it's a while off, but I'm getting prepared now so I can do it lickidy split. I have tons of games, and I was going to get a 120GB HDD until I found out all this, so now it seems I'll be getting at least a 200GB one. Someone else told me that that problem with a HDD bigger than 280GB happens at 250GB, is that true?

oz_paulb · « **Reply #13 on:** December 10, 2003, 07:41:00 PM »

QUOTE (The Dave man @ Dec 10 2003, 09:52 PM)

Well, I'm planning my mod for summer 2004, so it's a while off, but I'm getting prepared now so I can do it lickidy split. I have tons of games, and I was going to get a 120GB HDD until I found out all this, so now it seems I'll be getting at least a 200GB one. Someone else told me that that problem with a HDD bigger than 280GB happens at 250GB, is that true?

It's unclear (to me) exactly where the limit is (250GB vs 280GB).

It seems that most people experiencing corruption have > 280GB drives. But, there have been some reports of issues on 250GB drives. There's reason for me to believe that the problem is on >= 280GB (because of the # of bits used for a cluster #). That's just a guess, though.

I've ordered a 320GB Maxtor drive, and will spend some time trying to track down exactly where the problem is. I think it'll turn out to be 'fixable' by changing the 'cluster' size on the hard drive. That's just a guess, though.

Worst case, I believe it'll work just fine if you split the drive into F: + G: (each partition smaller than the 'limit' (~250GB)).

- Paulb

The Dave man · « **Reply #14 on:** December 11, 2003, 03:54:00 PM »

The price jump from 200 to 250GB is quite significant too, so maybe I'll stick with a 200GBer and patch that EvoX M7 bios with XBTool. Thanks for all your help guys!

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