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[firebird42]

Found another REALLY nasty bug, which has wiped out two hard drives now. While copying files to a 300GB drive close to it's capacity (around the last 15GB or so), all contents of the folder being written to (games / videos) were deleted, other folders on the drive were emptied, and lots of files were corrupted -- plus the space on the HD was still occupied! It happened to me when tranfering videos via FTP, and to my friend last night when backing up a game via UnleashX's built-in game copy function. There is no way to salvage the files, and since the space is just being wasted, the only solution is to wipe the drive and start fresh -- not happy.

Perhaps UnleashX has a problem with a large capacity HDs? I've modded around a half dozen boxes and have never encountered this problem until I started installing 300GB drives. Below are the specs on our boxes (both are the same):

XBOX v1.0
X-Chip w/ 1.5 Solderless adapter
EvoX X-Chip BIOS
Seagate 300GB 16MB buffer
Unleashx V0.38.0515a Build 565

[The Third Man]

QUOTE(firebird42 @ Feb 15 2006, 03:30 PM)

Perhaps UnleashX has a problem with a large capacity HDs?

Or perhaps you didn't have your BIOS and partitions configured correctly for such a large hard drive?

The LBA48 setting should be "F: take 137 BG, G: takes rest." If you had just one large F: partition for such a large hard drive, then that's where your corruption is coming from.

[Jezz_X]

I actually recal someone else say that HD over 250gig need to have both f: and G: parttitions or they will get corrupted because the LBA48 code isn't perfect.  
But thats just from memory I'm not 100% sure on that

[firebird42]

Ah, I always wondered what the purpose of having a G: drive was, and now I know.

Thanx for the quick replies guys (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by firebird42: Feb 15 2006, 11:12 PM