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[n1tro]

[Ichijoe]

Do you mean that if I went from Xecuter2 ver 498x.xx to Evoluton M8.
I would have to Loose my 30+ Game Backups from F? Man that would suck!
Figure an Half-Hour for a normal 1.5GB Game that would take most of the Day
just to get back to where I was with Xecuter2 948x.xx...

And donning on my Cynical Cap I would wonder what would make M8 any
better then the current Xecuter2 BIOS'es???

Now I'm almost sure I wont bother with this!

[imamafackinhokie]

[brandonbr22own]

QUOTE (imamafackinhokie @ Jul 8 2004, 12:53 PM)

Did you loose any of your games, and I would open m8 in xbtool and set the configurations to something different, I dont think you lost anything though.

Did you try to open M8 in the xbtool yet?  I did and it didn't work on my end.  I would like to use this bios myself.  Is there a tool to edit it with?  Oh and does anyone know if it has IGR?

[brandonbr22own]

Ichijoe,
I agree with you on what happend to his F:drive.  I had the same problem setting up a 160gig hdd.  I flashed the chip with a bios that I modified to my liking but it was not the proper one for the larger drive.  I then reflashed the chip and it reappeared.  But M8 is so new that you might have to post this in the Bios's area of the forum to get a better answer.

[n1tro]

Update.  Here's the deal so far.  With the m8_16 bios on a v1.6 XBOX, you will not see your F drive if you have a HD greater than 137gigs that has been previously formatted.  My 200gig is reading as 0 in a 1.6 XBOX however when I stick in a 120gig (from a different XBOX), it is seen fine.  I guess the m8_16 bios doesn't support the 0.6 formatting from before.  I also noticed that Configmagic doesnt work either in a v1.6.

[heinrich]

QUOTE (n1tro @ Jul 8 2004, 07:31 PM)

Update.  Here's the deal so far.  With the m8_16 bios on a v1.6 XBOX, you will not see your F drive if you have a HD greater than 137gigs that has been previously formatted.  My 200gig is reading as 0 in a 1.6 XBOX however when I stick in a 120gig (from a different XBOX), it is seen fine.  I guess the m8_16 bios doesn't support the 0.6 formatting from before.  I also noticed that Configmagic doesnt work either in a v1.6.

m8 does not support lba48, if you formatted your >137 gig drive as F+G (like with an x2 .67 bios), then your F drive contents will show up fine, but G will not.  If you have 1 large F partition, then you're out of luck for now.

And bios questions - > bios forum. (moving)

[heinrich]

QUOTE (xboxstone @ Jul 9 2004, 02:03 AM)

heinrich  is correct. I just formatted a 160 GB hard drive for a 1.6 Xbox and the M8 did not see the F drive. I put in my old 120 GB hard drive and everything showed up fine.

specifically, you formatted with a bios that DOES support lba48, and uses the large F partition table.
If you had formatted with m8 or another bios without lba48 support, or a bios with lba48, but the F+G partition table, your F drive would work fine. (and would just use the space from 8-137 gigs)