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[gamarsedge]

man someone needs to make a slayer 2.2 and add all these new apps on

[overkill]

QUOTE (Ace25 @ Sep 28 2003, 11:48 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?

Hey Ace25,

              I was wondering if doing the F: and G: partions worked out for you.  I installed an xbox 2 days ago with a maxtor 300 gig drive with the large F: partion and as soon as i get towards the last few gigs it starts to corupt files.  (Things start to dissapear)  I've done this process twice now.

I used Evox M7 Bios patched with xbtool v1.09.

[BroChaos]

can someone explain how to install a new 250gb hard drive?
i'm confused about when i patch my bios, and what programs to use to prepare the hard drive.  thanks.

[Deezle]

Thanks in advance for your answer!

Greetz,

Deezle

[BroChaos]

i just put in a 250 wd, and i'm gonna fill it up today.  i've also been wondering about the success people have been having.  i hope it's one of those situations where only the people with problems come here, and the ones that have success don't bother...

[JohnyBlaze]

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!

[ExxonTsunami]

Just a followup to my previous post.  I gave up on the "one huge F" concept and went with F & G.  SlaYer's installer supports this configuration out-of-the-box and I think that things just work better all around this way.

After doing this, Xebian installed just fine on my F partition, so I'm pretty sure it's installer was just confused by the >137GB size of the partition.  Xebian also sees G just fine after the install, which is interesting because it is also >137GB.

One remaining problem I've noticed is that dvd2xbox doesn't recognize my G partition.  I've got it enabled in the xml file, but I'm wondering if the fact that my G partition is >137GB is confusing it?  The directories in the xml file are definitely set right.

Just trying to contribute to the knowledge base...

Update: the dvd2xbox problem was a bug in dvd2xbox 0.4.9 that was fixed in 0.5.0.

[BroChaos]

hey guys, i think i messed this up.  can someone confirm?

put in new hard drive, built new large drive with slayers, connected to ftp, transferred new bios, flashed new bios (with partition 6 takes rest of drive checked).  when i rebooted, my f drive size was correct.  i started transferring stuff back to f:, but then i remembered that i didn't format f: after i rebooted with the new bios.  

i need to format f: again, right?

[TRIDENT624]

Tutorial?

I just bought my second Xbox...it's a ver. 1.0, bought used at EB Games..my first box has a 120 gig Maxtor (locked)...I want to put in a 250 gig Maxtor in my second one...is there a tut. anywhere on what you need and what you need to do to use a 250 gigger? This is great that you guys found a way to get pass the 137 barrier .....also is anyone streaming movies wirelessly using 54G...I'm thinking about upgrading my 802.11b wireless network so I can stream movies to my newest Xbox in my bedroom (about 30 feet from computer). Has anyone used the DLINK 802.11G gaming bridge? any thoughts....

Thanks...

[ExxonTsunami]

QUOTE (isoz_ @ Nov 2 2003, 12:05 PM)

all i want is a simple answer please i need to hear success stories

Well, so far so good.  I've filled almost all of F and half of G and everything still seems to be working fine.  I'll try to fill up G when I get a chance and see if things go awry.

Note that I generally boot Xebian and use scp to transfer files to F and G.  I put more faith in the Linux getting large drive support right than homebrew ftp servers (case in point, the ftp server in the new evox dash is totally hosed for any client other than some obscure Windows app).

[BroChaos]

well, i've had mine running for a week now.  250 wd.  240 total, 80 still left.  all games seem to be working fine, no issues at all.  really pleased with everything.  patch works great.  running mxm as dash.  4977 bios.  x2.1.  v1.1 xbox.

[heinrich]

Ive been using this since avalaunch first added support for partition7 (almost 2 full months now), on my maxtor 160gig drive, no problems at all.

[Ace25]

QUOTE (isoz_ @ Nov 2 2003, 03:05 AM)

has any body had any success getting a larger harddrive to work

I put the Maxtor 320Gig in mine. At first I went with 1 big F: drive, but when I reached around 280Gigs filled it mysteriously corrupted the entire HD and I had to reformat (I highly suspect a file and/or directory limitation of FATX, but no proof). After redoing the Bios to F:=137G G:=179G I have COMPLETELY filled up both partitions to under less than 100megs free on each, and so far working flawless for the last month. Although the Autoscan of f:/games and g:/games on bootup takes quite a bit longer when you have 120+ for it to search through.

[TheButcherJB]

I just used the LBA48 featured with my 160gb maxtor 5400rpm harddrive and it works fine.

I have a V1.0 motherboard and used the Slayer install disc if anyone was wondering.


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