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L33

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« on: January 22, 2003, 05:19:00 AM »
in thoery you should be able to do this now anyway, regardless of EvoX. The 2nd HDD should become drive D:, and you should be able to launch from there using boXplorer or such......

someone should try this!
....although its pretty lame if you want to play originals or rip originals to the xbox, cant be done without the original xbox dvd drive!
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Brunt

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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2003, 06:13:00 PM »
Then just take the time to backup all your originals wink.gif and put them on one of the HDDs
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2003, 10:33:00 PM »
Been tried, long ago...
If it was possible it would have been posted by now.
It could still happen tho...

Maybe the Xbtool could be used to enable the D drive to be used somehow as a HD drive
or see both drives as one logical drive...

I am more in favor of of Project 411G and XDeck.
That way I dont loose the ablilty to play and backup Original games.  
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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2003, 11:23:00 PM »
Alright guys!  I got the 4974 bios modded up with the XBTool and booted with no DVD Drive just fine.  Then, i popped in my 2nd HD (it has evox and games on it) to where the DVD drive plugs in with a power splitter, and it booted fine when i set the 2nd hd to Slave (when both were master i got error 8 - no hd detected).  So now, Team EVOX, help us out!!!  =)

Also, using boXplorer, i cant access the d:, and it still comes up as deviceCdrom.

And yet another update.  I popped out an old 8 gig IDE and removed the partition from it and did the HD prep.  Set it to slave and booted right up no problem.  Decided to format the drive through raw FTP command but instead of Harddisk0, useing harddisk1.

Formatpath DeviceHarddisk1Partition1
200 FormatKey ******* for 'DeviceHarddisk1Partition1'
Formatdrive *******
200 Drive Formated
CWD D
250 "/D/" is current directory.
PWD
257 "/D/" is current directory

I get that far.  I can go into the d: directory no problem, but i cant write to it.  When i tried, it said:

MKD /D/Xboxplorer
553 Requested action not taken.
CWD /D/Xboxplorer/
553 Requested action not taken. /D/Xboxplorer/
Transfer queue completed

Anything anyone can suggest?
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SScorpio

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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2003, 05:52:00 AM »
Having both HDs set to master should cause an error.

As for it not letting you write to drive D.  It is either a limitation of the BIOS or the program your trying to write with.  If we're lucky it's that the program was coded to always think Drive D is a DVD-ROM and disallows writing to it to prevent uncatched errors.  That would mean more advanced detection of what Drive D really is, is needed or a switch or something.

I guess you could try using a few different programs and see if they all fail when trying to write to drive D.  With any lucky we'll be able get this to work with at least one program.  That would mean it's not a BIOS limitation.
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Jred

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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2003, 01:02:00 PM »
In any case I'm sure there will be a fix released soon for the BIOS' or the program.
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Rollo

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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2003, 07:31:00 PM »
Hey this is some pretty cool shit you guys are doin!
I am very interested to see how this turns out.  I commend you. wink.gif
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dizturbd

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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2003, 07:38:00 PM »
Put EvoX onto that 8 gig drive.  Then install it as your HD and transfer some games to it.  Uninstall and reinstall as dvd drive.  Boot up your XBox and see if it will recognize the games using BoXplorer.
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blitz6

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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2003, 11:12:00 PM »
Bumpity bump bump.  Nothing new to report here =(
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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2003, 03:13:00 PM »
I am not really computer smart but

Couldn't you just have a splitter switch as a bypass to which hdd you want to read when you turn it on. Like the tv antenna/cable switches are where you pick if you want to run off antenna or run off cable. you could just find a dual cable for the hdd's and then some kind of switch to pick which one you want to use
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2003, 06:20:00 AM »
Hey I found this old post and wondered if anyone found how to do this and maybe put it in a post I missed??
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2003, 06:44:00 AM »
go to http://208.34.209.68/411gb/411gb.htm
he has 3 hard drives comming to 411gb ohmy.gif
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rjm2k

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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2003, 07:04:00 AM »
How about trying this with xbmp instead of evox?  Use the xbmp config file to map the dvd drive to a drive  and see if you can ftp into it using the filezilla bit of xbmp.  You might even be able to play from it once there's something on it.
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