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QUOTE(skydra @ Feb 12 2010, 11:55 PM)

Thanks for the quick reply idotsfan.

Actually there's the letter l and not the letter i in my nick  

Type dmesg at the terminal and paste the output in pastebins and post the link here. Is the xbox hdd detected correctly? I'm not sure if locking will work through a sd? interface.

[skydra]

http://pastebin.com/m5e8431e8

I tried it on a different computer at work to see if the motherboard may have had something to do with where the hard drive was assigned. And it did the same thing.  

[skydra]

So what I am thinking from my research online is that it is being labeled as sda1 because it is a sata hard drive. Now i could use the older version which is 2.0 alpha and i could enter the destination accordingly but than there is the problem of not knowing if it will lock. I will not be able to try this until sometime sunday night. But since the xbox does not read sata drives i have purchased a sata to ide adapter and what I am thinking is that by hooking the hard drive up to this adapter than through ide on a mobo that when I boot 2.1 off my flash that it will register the hard drive as hda1 since it is connecting through ide. Unless it can still identify it as sata through the device details.  So thoughts on this?

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QUOTE(skydra @ Feb 13 2010, 03:47 AM)

So thoughts on this?

Yes, you are right. Sata devices are seen as scsi devices through libata in linux. I wasn't aware of that previously. Nevertheless your suggestions are valid and you could try them. I have just one more idea to add - you could try forcing IDE legacy mode in your motherboard bios.

Please report back on your results so that others know what to do.

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QUOTE(kaneda_77 @ Feb 16 2010, 03:06 AM)

 or just the first one of grub4dos?

Just the grub4dos bit  

[Master-D]

Hello. I wanna put 160 ATA HDD on my Xbox and after that I will use Xbox for media canter. But I know if I put HDD more then 120GB i must mod the BIOS, but i forgot how and I really don`t know how to do it.
Please help me.
Thank you.
Cheers

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QUOTE(Master-D @ Feb 20 2010, 04:14 AM)

Hello. I wanna put 160 ATA HDD on my Xbox and after that I will use Xbox for media canter. But I know if I put HDD more then 120GB i must mod the BIOS, but i forgot how and I really don`t know how to do it.

1. How is xbox modded? Chipped or softmod?
2. What is the relevance of the bios modification to the topic?
3. The softmod (via the kernel patcher/bios loader) or bios on the chip's bank needs to have LBA48 support.

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QUOTE(RMM @ Feb 21 2010, 01:38 PM)

Whats going wrong here?  

Press c to get a grub command prompt at the boot menu. Type

CODE

find (

 followed by [tab] key. scullc pioneered the multibooting stuff. Google for grub4dos guide for more hints.

Any reason why you need/are using xboxhdm2.1 rather than xboxhdm1.9?  

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QUOTE(RMM @ Feb 22 2010, 02:07 AM)

However when I go to format the SATA drive it wont allow me to create an F partition.

You are better off running xbpartitioner 1.1 off the xbox rather than xboxhdm1.9/2.1 to create F partition on a hdd of that size.

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QUOTE(RMM @ Feb 23 2010, 02:23 PM)

Wouldnt xboxhdm1.9 telling me the disk was full be a sign something didnt go right?

Not really. xboxhdm1.9 or for that matter any xbox linux like xboxhdm2.1 cannot really handle a 1.5Tb hdd beyond creating the standard xbox partitions. Use xbpartitioner for that purpose.

[scooterwfr]

Hi all!  

Just want to say, excellent job on everything you have done.  This truly is an accomplishment.  

This is my first post, I am new to the mod game, already have my box softmodded and just looking to replace the hard drive with a spare 120 gb IDE I have laying around.  My comp is too new to run 1.9, but I do have one pata slot on my asus board.  

Long story short, I believe I have done everything correctly, I am currently booted into SLAX through the flash drive, SLAX recgonizes my drive, but it sets the device node to dev/sdb1 instead of hda.  It's almost like it views my IDE as a SATA drive.  The only drive I have connected to my computer is the IDE through the ribbon cable.  

Do you guys have any idea how I can change the node it assigns the drive to?  Unfortunately without doing that I can't really use xboxhdm as far as I can tell.  

Any help would be great!

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QUOTE(scooterwfr @ Feb 25 2010, 11:18 AM)

Do you guys have any idea how I can change the node it assigns the drive to?  

Try forcing IDE legacy mode in bios

[Keypel]

I'm having a problem. I'm using xboxhdm2.1

I can get to the point where xboxHD Maker is asking to enter a number 1-5

That's where my problem is.

My sata drive I want to xbox partition is mounted as sda1. I don't think it is dev/hda, dev/hdb, dev/hdc, or dev/hdd?

I've tried numbers 1-4 and always get

Warning: No DNS servers found
qemu: could not open disk image dev/hd(a,b,c,d)

I've used xboxhdm1.9 many times in the past but my new PC has no IDE on the motherboard, just sata. I have every ide2sata and sata2ide adapter you could imagine.

Also, on a side note, I'm a little confused if I put a 1.9 ISO in the root folder or If I prepare the C and E as normal.

The 2.1 help pdf points to a thread where it says to use a 1.9 iso in the usb root and I think that info might be outdated.

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QUOTE(Keypel @ Mar 24 2010, 01:43 PM)

My sata drive I want to xbox partition is mounted as sda1. I don't think it is dev/hda, dev/hdb, dev/hdc, or dev/hdd?

I've tried numbers 1-4 and always get

Warning: No DNS servers found
qemu: could not open disk image dev/hd(a,b,c,d)

I've used xboxhdm1.9 many times in the past but my new PC has no IDE on the motherboard, just sata. I have every ide2sata and sata2ide adapter you could imagine.

Also, on a side note, I'm a little confused if I put a 1.9 ISO in the root folder or If I prepare the C and E as normal.

The 2.1 help pdf points to a thread where it says to use a 1.9 iso in the usb root and I think that info might be outdated.

Read the post before your post and try enabling legacy mode for your adapter.

Read post #1. The pdf is a bit outdated.

[Keypel]

CODE

Auto-Detecting 3rd Master.. ATAPI CDROM
Auto-Detecting 4th Master.. IDE Hard Disk
Auto-Detecting 4th Slave... IDE Hard Disk

3rd Master : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22LP20 1.04
             Ultra DMA Mode-4

4th Master : WDC WD80EB-282FH2 07.01F07
             Ultra DMA Mode-5 S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK

4th Slave  : Hitachi HD721010SLA360 ST60A3AA
             Ultra DMA Mode-6 S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK

I got the above info from doing a pause/break during boot startup. I noticed the drive I want to xbox partition is listed as 4th Master.

I didn't see anything called legacy mode in the bios. I did see Ultra DMA mode. It's set to auto right now. I'm almost tempted to set the drive in question from "auto" to "DMA mode 1" to see what happens.

I Don't have any IDE ports, just THREE sata ports on the motherboard. Seems like the 1st port is 3rd Master, 2nd port is 4th master, and the 3rd sata port is 4th Slave.

Nowhere do I see anything being listed as a 1st master but do you think a "1st Master" would be the same as a Primary Master AKA dev/hda?

I have an American Megatrends bios which is a pretty popular bios.

This post has been edited by Keypel: Yesterday, 06:35 PM