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[shambles1980]

cant answer anything about the chipped stuff,
but softmods can support large drives. just use xbpartitioner to format f and g  after you have the soft mod installed.
i like krazie ndure 1.1.1 for my Splinter cell soft mod,
i then use hexen "heimdall's xbox engineering disk"
hexen can also install xbpartitioner to your applications on your soft mod so you will be wanting that for larger drives.
when it comes to xbox hard disk upgrades on a softmod, i prefer using xboxhdm 1.9 and the eeprom. Provided you can dissable your bios detecting the hard disk and you have the eeprom its by far the safest method imo due to not having to swap any cables during the process. "if you cant disable your bios then you need to swap cables"

hope that covers most of your questions.

[shambles1980]

the pc bios..
You tell the pc bios no hard disk is installed as promary master, or set the auto detect of sectors to off instead of auto. or in the case of dell systems just set that channel to off.

if you cant do that "some cant" you can connect the hard disk to the ide but not connect the 4 pin molex untill after the bios has finished it post and failed to detect the drive.

the reason for all of this is because the pc's bios will freeze the drive if it detects it and then you cant lock it.
But xboxhdm can detect it after the bios fails to detect it.