Topic: Anybody Succeeded In Mounting Xbox Hdd? (Read 119 times)

geldwolf · « **on:** July 09, 2003, 12:03:00 AM »

It didn't work for me either. I used mandrake 9.1.
I even tried this:
*used hdd driver to make a backup of the xbox hd under windows.
*I then transferred the hdd image to the linux machine.
*I tried to mount the image file as a fatx fs.
mount /home/test/hd.bin /mnt/xbox -t fatx -o loop

still the same error: wrong fs type, superblock..., too many mounted filesystems.

Are there solutions??

geldwolf · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2003, 05:52:00 AM »

Well, I just found out that a good solution would be to use xlinux. xlinux is a 'live' linux distribution which you can run directly from the cd.

Mounting should work under xlinux (I am going to try this tonight!). Get it at the appropiate spot, look under pc, hardddisk tools

vleric · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2003, 05:28:00 PM »

Easy under Debian. Just "mount /dev/hda55 /somewhere" for the F drive.

dogcow · « **Reply #3 on:** July 10, 2003, 06:44:00 PM »

Quite simply, you must have the xbox HDD as primary IDE channel maste.r
Or apply a kernel patch:
Edit the file /usr/src/linux/fs/partitions/xbox.c
Look for a line that says:
if (hd->major != 3) return 0;
change the 3 to a 22.
Recompile.
Then the xbox HDD will only be mountable when it's sec.ide.channel master.
Or download a precompiled kernel from http;//sonipes.ath.cx:81/xbox-kernel.tgz
It will work with XBOX HDD as primary or secondary ide master.
Cheers.

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