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[Dante_Ali]

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oz_paulb: At the beginning of this thread I saw you mention that you would be releasing some partitioning tools, but I have not seen any of those. If they have been released, what are they called? What I am trying to do is to split the extra space between my F and G partitions (6 and 7) I don't care if I have to reformat to do that...that is okay, But I would like to have approx 70GBs for each partition. The reason for this is I want to let linux take my F partition and then use the G partition for other FATX related things. How would I go about doing this? If there are no tools available, is there a way to do it manually?

I am also very interested in this...

Let me explain. ShAllax has just released a new version of Gentoox Home 2.1, which comes integrated with Stardust. The really cool thing about this new version is that it lets you reformat your F partition as a 'native' Linux filesystem (such as ext2/3 or reiserfs). The first thing you'll notice is that this makes it MUCH FASTER than installing it on E or F - it's a world of difference .

The downside of all this is that it needs the F drive for all of this - and as much as I love Linux, I would still like to have my F drive left intact so that I can still run emulators and such. At first I was thinking of maybe using two harddisks on the Xbox and having one of them solely dedicated to Linux and one for normal Xbox usage but of course it would be much better if some sort of tool were to be released that lets us specify our own preferred size for each of the Xbox partitions. I've searched the forums for a way to  specify the size for Xbox partitions but so far I've found absolutely nothing. It seems that Evox' 'disk.bin' dictates the size of the C, E, X, Y and Z partitions and then allocates all space that is left to the F drive / G drive.

Ideally I would like to reformat my F drive and have it take up approximately 5 or 6 gigs while the G drive would take up the rest. This way I can install Gentoox on the F drive using the 'Native install' and still use the G drive for everything else. Or perhaps the other way round - if a new version of Gentoox were to be released with G drive support, then it would make sense to have a 5 / 6 Gb G: partition and have the F drive take up the rest.

I really hope that there will be a solution sometime in the future. Even a few pointers on how to do this manually would be of great interest to me - I don't care if I screw anything up in the process, that comes par for the course

[sxmen]

i heard that for alot of people that put 120gig and up the xbox get to hot , i am thinking about installin 120 but am very scared , can someone tell me what is the best to keep the xbox cool.has anyone in here had that problem

[sxmen]

is is true if you install a 120 gig 5200 it will not over heat

[tester123]

Oh yeah, this is the F'n the shit! Thanks to oz_paulb!

[Ace25]

ok, found my first problem...

I installed a Maxtor 320Gig drive, Evox M7 bios with LBA Patch. F: drive uses remaining space.

It all formatted fine, evox showed 307Gigs free on clean format. Now Evox and FlashFXP show I have 35Gigs free after a couple days of xfering files.. but it will no longer FTP files, I get "553 Requested action not taken". Is it not showing the correct space on the HD and it may actually be full? Or maybe a max directory limitation? Any thoughts?

[desertboy]

QUOTE (sxmen @ Sep 28 2003, 08:41 AM)

i heard that for alot of people that put 120gig and up the xbox get to hot , i am thinking about installin 120 but am very scared , can someone tell me what is the best to keep the xbox cool.has anyone in here had that problem

see my sig for cooling tips for the deaf.

[Ace25]

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?

[RobwDav]

question.  I'm using Slayer's.........and I'm bout to a 160 in.  If I do this, then run xtoolbox, to reformat the F, and THEN move all the apps/games/ems etc in the f: on my 120, will if function properly? ......apps such as dvd2xbox etc.


Sorry if this has been covered, I guess I got lost in all the responses....and okay, perhaps a little zealous.

Thanks,

[goulcatcher]

[RobwDav]

Good look GC, btw......where is a step by step for this.....(I'm at work) ....is it fairly self explanatory, once you've opened xtool?

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (Tailwind @ Oct 3 2003, 01:32 PM)

Well Paul, YOU'RE THE MAN! One question with this new developement I've not seen yet in allllllllll the replies. Maybee this is a newbie question and therefor not asked before, but still I dare to ask it   With the 137GB limit overcome is it possible to use 2 harddrives at the same time? The reasons are clear: - Defrag issues are less because of splitting your data over 2 drives. - The 2nd drive will be external so no heating issues. - Data loss in case of failures will be less. Maybe the 2nd drive can be made as the G drive with all the available space? In this case you would have something like: One 120 GB harddisk (the one most people already have) |---> with the C / E / F / X / Y / Z partitions. One new external build 300 GB harddisk |---> with the new G partition of the hole 300GB Is this technically possible or is this still a limitation in the hardware / chipset of the XBOX??? Maybee a interesting thought, maybee a stupid question  :rolleyes: ...

The only way to add support for a second hard drive (other than a physical switch solution) is to replace the DVD drive with a hard drive (only 2 drives can exist on the IDE cable at one time).

I believe it's possible to modify the kernel to support 2 hard drives instead of hard drive + DVD.  Several people have shown interest in this.

It's possible, although I think the changes to the kernel will be much more complicated than the (simple) changes to support LBA48.

At some point, I'll take a closer look at the kernel to see how much work would really be involved.  I'm very busy with my real job right now, so I haven't had much time to work on Xbox stuff lately.

- Paulb

[schmiew1]

Hi Paul

May have a small problem I have installed my 300GB drive today. I have modified my bios to support the LBA48 etc and flashed no problems.

Formatted the drive and yep 291GB' s free on drive f:. The problem I now have is when I use Xbox2DVD to copy eveything across again it keeps frezzing and I have to power off the XBOX. If I use version 0.4.5 the app hangs. If I use the latest 0.4.6 it will run and start to copy everything across but hangs everytime.

Any Ideas ?

Cheers
Steve

[oz_paulb]

QUOTE (schmiew1 @ Oct 3 2003, 06:03 PM)

Hi Paul May have a small problem I have installed my 300GB drive today. I have modified my bios to support the LBA48 etc and flashed no problems. Formatted the drive and yep 291GB' s free on drive f:. The problem I now have is when I use Xbox2DVD to copy eveything across again it keeps frezzing and I have to power off the XBOX. If I use version 0.4.5 the app hangs. If I use the latest 0.4.6 it will run and start to copy everything across but hangs everytime. Any Ideas ? Cheers Steve

Sorry - I've never used Xbox2DVD.  I suppose it could be a problem with that program, or it could be a problem with the LBA48 patch.

Have you tried another program (like the "px hdd loader' program)?

- Paulb

[isoz_]

 with it being fine please any one help answer this?
thx

[schmiew1]

 and here to you