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Coolio787

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« on: March 28, 2003, 08:51:00 AM »
is it possible ot take out the xbox DVD drive and put in another Hard drive instead, and have a switch inthe front to switch between hard drives?

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PM5K

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2003, 08:53:00 AM »
I believe the newest Xecuter BIOS supports systems without a DVD, so in theory yes you could add another hard drive and a switch.....I don't even know if the switch is necessary...
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gnasher666

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2003, 10:29:00 AM »
would the dashboard (evox) etc need to support D: as a HD partition or extra partitions?
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FIREitUP

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2003, 03:46:00 PM »
HOW THE HELL DID YOU FILL A 120gig hard drive??!
anyway there are tutorials on hard drive switching somewhere here you can just make an external HD and switch them or u could just switch up the hds or maybe DELETE ALL THE SHIT YOU HAVE ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
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Coolio787

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2003, 06:54:00 AM »
hahah i cant state HOW i filled it up, because i might get kicked off this forum........ ;)

it would be great to swap out the DVD drive and put in another drive, and if the second 120 gig drive could be recognized as one big partition, thatd be great. is this doable? if i put in a hard drive right now woul dit work? woul di set it as slave and the 1st drive as master?

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elduderino1234

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2003, 08:34:00 AM »
umm...no, you can't do that. if you want 2 120 gig hdd's then you need to have an external switch to choose which hard drive you want to boot with. seeing as how the xbox will only recognize 137gb of hdd space, this is your only option.
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jaredkortje

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2003, 08:41:00 AM »
well my hard drive is almost all filled up only like 12 gigs left and i have a 120 gb hehe
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Coolio787

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2003, 03:39:00 PM »
could someone explain how to set up a switch with two 120 gig drives INSIDE the box, preferably without one of those HD switchers, the expensive ones

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Sugartooth

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120 Gig Filled Up! Another Hard Drive?
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2003, 06:28:00 PM »
There are some half answers in this thread. I am currently looking into this as well.

Facts:
Newest BIOS removes need to have dvd drive attached thus freeing up a spot on the IDE chain.

The 137GB limit is ~not~ per IDE chain but per DEVICE. Put two 160GB drives on a standard IDE chain and you'll get 137+137=274, not 137GB. Try it on your pc and see.

XBOX does boot up with 2 hard drives attached. Mine stutters when the flubber animation is going but it does boot.
Note: 1st drive can be left as Cable Select but the 2nd drive must be placed in Slave mode.

Linux users are said to be able to mount, format, and access the second drive:
xboxhacker.net forum post

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Styno Posted: Mar 7 2003, 03:06 PM 

this technique is possible, i did it on my xbox:

the 120gb maxtor and the 10gb -original- seagate happy together
xbox v1.0 / debian / no-dvd check / maxtor:master - seagate:slave (both unlocked)

---dmesg
hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST310211A, ATA DISK drive
hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=238216/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: 19541088 sectors (10005 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=20480/232/16, UDMA(33)
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create an fs on /dev/hdb and mount:
---mount---
xbox:~# mount | grep hdb
/dev/hdb on /mnt/external type reiserfs (rw)
xbox:~#
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next step is connecting an external usb drive, but no luck so far...
loading module usb-storage is ok, but when i try to load a scsi module, it segfaults...

Styno

My experiments:
Once booted with both hard drives connected, I can format the second hard drive using raw ftp commands through FlashFXP. The first hard drive is enumerated as /Device/Harddisk0 (as in boXplorer). By issuing the ftp raw command formatpath /Device/Harddisk1/Partition1 I get a valid key and am able to format a partition on the second drive.

I cannot access this drive however. When I remove my master drive and connect the second drive as primary and reattach the dvd, I am able to bootup with a evox bootcd. Going into settings, there it is, the partition that I created. I am able to ftp and copy files to it.

Conclusion:
2 hard drives is a definite possibility. What we need is a version of EvolutionX that addresses the slave device on the IDE controller as /Device/Harddisk1 instead of /Device/Cdrom0 as it currently does.

Anyone know who's ear we need to put this into so someone from the EvoX team can take a peek into this? What would be ideal is a version of EvoX that polls the IDE chain and detects if you're running 2 hard drives or a hard drive and dvd drive. This way, you could have the second hard drive connected on a switch with the dvd and have the ability to switch between the two in case you needed to boot a dvd.

This post has been edited by Sugartooth: Apr 1 2003, 02:35 AM
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