Topic: Breaking The 137 Gb Limit (Read 632 times)

dankydoo · « **Reply #30 on:** May 20, 2003, 10:26:00 AM »

I saw the CVS commits for large drive support come over the xbox-linux mailing list awhile ago, and Im pretty sure it was bob that did it, now if someone is a wicked assembly coder, they could drop this code in easily, there really wasnt that much code to it........nice work Bob

EvilWays · « **Reply #31 on:** May 22, 2003, 04:51:00 PM »

Wait a little while till Maxtor or WD releases the 300GB or 350GB model.

Deezle · « **Reply #32 on:** May 26, 2003, 02:26:00 AM »

And, please, don't forget, while fiddling around with the bios, to implement support for fat32 or ntfs! The 42 chars limitation of fatx is a pain in the ass.

Greetz,

Deezle

EvilWays · « **Reply #33 on:** May 26, 2003, 08:13:00 AM »

That's what Avalaunch can be used for...this is to see if the 137GB limit can be broken on the Xbox, not to mess with the HDD OS

Biznaz · « **Reply #34 on:** May 31, 2003, 04:24:00 AM »

is this being discussed anywhere else? i'm really curious about it

Jse · « **Reply #35 on:** June 05, 2003, 04:53:00 PM »

nice work but when are we going to see someone try and implement this into a bios

Heet · « **Reply #36 on:** June 05, 2003, 07:21:00 PM »

said somewhere that xecuter is taking a look at it.

juan23 · « **Reply #37 on:** June 06, 2003, 11:31:00 AM »

hey to all thats researching this project, great work so far, hopefully this will become a reality soon enough, we all know how small a 120 gb hdd can be at times. Im researches myself as much as I can, most of the stuff thats been posted is the same I came accross, but the hunt shal live

SupeRdUPErBlakE · « **Reply #38 on:** June 16, 2003, 08:52:00 AM »

Where's Bob?

Heet · « **Reply #39 on:** June 16, 2003, 10:31:00 AM »

there are several groups looking at this.....but sadly it doesnt look possible.

Arcann · « **Reply #40 on:** June 16, 2003, 02:27:00 PM »

SupeRdUPErBlakE · « **Reply #41 on:** June 20, 2003, 07:54:00 AM »

grug · « **Reply #42 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:41:00 AM »

QUOTE (EvilWays @ Apr 25 2003, 08:39 PM)

So even if we crack the size limitation, are we still stuck at ATA33?

Even, if you assume, by some miracle, someone managed to incorporate ATA/66 or 100 or whatever into the IDE controller, we'd still be stuck at ATA/33. An ATA channel will only run as fast as the slowest device on it. ie, if you have an ATA/33 device (eg DVD-ROM) and an ATA/100 device (Hard drive), the hard drive will only run at 33.

Now since the Xbox only has one channel, and thats shared by both the hard drive and DVD-ROM, and the DVD-ROM in the Xbox is only ATA/33, we'll never see higher speeds anyway, unless you disconnected the drive. Although I have heard of one manufacturer of PC DVD-ROMs (Pioneer maybe?) that increased the speed to ATA/66 for this reason.

X-ace · « **Reply #43 on:** June 21, 2003, 05:33:00 AM »

QUOTE (grug @ Jun 21 2003, 10:41 AM)

QUOTE (EvilWays @ Apr 25 2003, 08:39 PM)

So even if we crack the size limitation, are we still stuck at ATA33?

we'd still be stuck at ATA/33.

I'd take the size increase without the speed any day.

keep up the good work.

AlexsWeiner · « **Reply #44 on:** June 28, 2003, 06:29:00 AM »

hopefully by time of xecuter 3 we'll have 250gig hd's sitting in our xbox

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