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[KiLaHuRtZ]

just ordered my 300GB Maxtor, i found out in previous installs (not sure if bug in xbtool or lba48) if you have an .xbe file name for your dash longer than 8 characters in the bios it causes the dash to hang on boot and/or even a boot disc will sometimes hang or "jitter".  A good sign is if it takes for ever for your dash to load.  I've tried this only with x2 4977 and with both F takes rest and G takes rest on a 250 gig hdd, after i changed the .xbe's to <=8 characters everythign worked fine (very odd) not sure if this may hinder the use of the 300 gig hdd's.  you may want to check this, also if anyone can  confirm the FULL use of a 300gig hdd is working fine with F takes rest, please let us know.

EDIT:  PAUL you may want to see this not sure if it is a problem with the big hdd's but i found this out from maxtor about their big hdd's

MaXLine II Nearline PATA Hard Disk Drive Family:
CAPACITIES:
MODEL ACT CYLs HDS SECT MAX CYLS GB CAPACITY
5A250J0 486,344 16 63 16,383 250GB
5A300J0 588,422 16 63 16,383 300GB
NOTE: NEVER enter more than 16,383 cylinders in the system BIOS. This may potentially cause data loss.

[KiLaHuRtZ]

Ace25

when you had your hdd as one big f, about how many folders in the root dir F:| would you say you had (rough estimate) as will run a check with dummy directories to test and see if i get corruption when i hit a certain number.

[KiLaHuRtZ]

hhmmm,  i'm going to bet there isn't a limitation because i noticed someone else had a problem very close to yours.  what kind of xbox version do you have, BIOS, dash etc.?

[Kontra]

Ace, or anyone else with this problem

If you could please look at this, and tell me if its similar to yours.  And what you did to fix it?

I currently have a Maxtor II 300Gb Harddrive installed LB48 enabled, all space to partition F,  after format i was allocated to 291.xxx.ect   ive recently filled the drive with 14.900.xxx.ect space free.  Whenever I try to copy anything else over to it, it will cancel the transfer as if it was full.  Then also cause corruption on my drive.

Your problem seemed fimiliar to mine, from what I understand you allocated the extra space to G partition? and that seemed to fix your problem? No corruption? And allowed you to use all the space?

Anyone else have any thoughts to this? causes or fixes? id prefer to use F drive only, but if it takes using the G partition then thats what it takes.

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[luma]

QUOTE (JohnyBlaze @ Oct 26 2003, 07:46 PM)

QUOTE (Ace25 @ Sep 28 2003, 10:48 PM) Well, that small problem I mentioned above just turned into a much bigger one. I was copying just a couple of movie files over, then when I rebooted my XBox, now there are no more games or emulators. I FTP into the XBox and now under games all I have is a (negative) -2Gig file named "b" and under emulators I have a "#" symbol and that is it.. somehow all the data of F:/games and F:/Emulators got corrupted... ugh.. that was 3 days work down the tubes.. now to try a different approach and make F: 137Gig and G: the rest. I am really starting to think it was a file or directory amount limitation. Can someone verify that? All of the Maxtor 320GB hard drives have been recalled, apparently they are ALL failing.  It's not you or LBA48, its the drive itself.  Big fuckup by Maxtor!

Does anybody have any word on a recall of the 320gb?  I'm just now experiencing this very same problem and I'm wondering if I'll have to send my drive back.

[Ace25]

Bah, BS on the recall. After setting up the F: AND G: drive I have not had a single problem with my 320Gig. I have filled up the drive now almost entirely (less than 10megs free on both F and G) and it has been working PERFECT.

But yes, seems to be a limit around 280Gigs on drives as that is exactly where I got to on one big F drive before it started acting full and then data corruption.

Edit: ok, wanted to be 100% sure so I just called Maxtor at 1-800-2Maxtor and asked 3 different reps if there were any recalls on the 320Gig drives and all 3 stated NO. There are no problems with the 320gigs beyond what any other maxtor drive may experience.

[luma]

i also spoke to maxtor and had the same answer.  my concern then is that this isn't a maxtor issue, but rather an lba48 patch issue.  paulb - you still reading this thread?  does any of this make sense?

[Ace25]

I already spoke with Paulb via PMs and he told me this is NOT a LBA48 issue and he thinks it may be a FATX issue. I absolutely agree with his conclusion. What I can't seem to find is documentation on FATX and how it works, file and/or directory limitations, etc. Anyone else have anything on FATX?

[KiLaHuRtZ]

i agree Ace25, maybe if we cannot find info on FATX is there a way we can impliment a different type of file system?  Possibly FAT32?

[luma]

hey ace - what dashboard are you using?  i'm using ava 48 and i'm wondering if that might have anything to do with it.

[Ace25]

I use Evox as my dash and tried 3 different versions and all ended up getting corrupted, so its not a Dashboard related problem since your using Ava and still had the same issue.

[mark876543]

I'm happy to see this patch but I'm having a hard time getting success.  I patched x24977 w/ xbtool, trying first the 6&rest-on-7 option, and used slayers 2.5.  When booting off slayers disc the sizes look good but in HDD Loaderv2.1a it shows only 120GB still and only partition 6, no way to see partition 7 or load to it.  If I just put game folders there using ftp will they work I wonder?  So then I tried reflash to put all in F.  And rebuilt drive in slayers again.  I thought the box was fried for awhile I couldnt even boot.  Reflashed back and it works again like the first time.  I think I'll reload all the games and see if maybe the 120GB size report in HDDLoader is just in error.  Any ideas?  On my box it seems the all-in-partition-6 option doesn't work, and I'm not sure how to work with partition 7.

[Cutriss]

I mentioned this in the non-stickied thread, but 280GB is right at 2^38. Is it possible that FATX has an addressing limit of 38-bit-size partitions?

[KiLaHuRtZ]

if someone has the time, you could fill the hdd with 1gb files one by one and see exactly where is starts to "crash".  this may help to point us in the right direction where to look for such a limitation.

[KiLaHuRtZ]

well, sucessfully got my 300GB maxtor in.  I did an F and a G since there seems to be a problem with a full F. also did a glowing controller port mod with some LED's.