QUOTE(bmcclint @ Jul 13 2008, 07:22 PM)
OK...didn't have much time to report the other day.
Well just putting the SYBA(SD-CF-2IDE-U) w/ Transcend 1GB 80x CF card resulted in an Error 09, supposedly the HDD parameters are bad, but w/ no CF card installed I get error 07, HDD timeout, as expected so the XBOX is seeing the CF card.
OK...I'm not 100% convinced that its the XBOX as I cannot get my PC to 'use' this setup either. The bios sees the CF card and adapter and reports a Transcend device but hangs after the floppy seek. Not sure what is actually wrong. Until I can get the PC to see this device and install to it I am not convinced I cannot use this in the XBOX.
According to Dan Rutter*, CF cards should just work, at least as far as the BIOS is concerned, but not all of them show up as non-removable, and not all of them can do DMA. This could be tripping the Xbox up, but if your PC can't boot it, it's pointing to a problem with the card, the adapter, or a combination of the two. I'd try known-gooding the card by sticking it in a USB reader and formatting it, then after that working on the adapter.
Something quick to try, though, is making sure it's not trying to boot off the card, and making sure your master/slave stuff is done properly (two devices on the same address tend to show up as one properly named device that doesn't work properly and stops the machine from booting).
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http://www.dansdata....askdan00025.htmQUOTE(bmcclint @ Jul 13 2008, 07:22 PM)
Next question...If this turns out to be a parameter thing in the XBOX is this information stored in the kernel? Can it be altered or is some piece of hardware outside of the kernel trowing an error. I know a 1GB setup will format out , as it already works on a 6.0GB HDD, but is there a 'limit' on the HDD size. Unfortunately I don't have anything smaller than that antique 6GB drive.
My money's on there being a lower-limit hardcoded into the BIOS, which none of the hacks ever thought of removing. This is going on the error description for error 9 that I found further up the thread, and the fact that it failed with a small hard drive, which is not really that exotic a piece of kit. I'm incredibly rusty with IDA, and I doubt that even when I could work it, I'd have been able to find the alleged size check in the boot process.
I think productive things to try and do would be to try to find the minimum size limit, and to try to attract the attention of someone involved in the hot-patching stuff the softmods do nowadays. The patcher is all open-source, so the chances are that someone involved with it might actually want to help you*. The Evox and iND people might be a good second choice, but I'd be surprised if they were still around.
*(rather than going MINEMINEMINE no modifying copyright
microsoft team xecutor no stealing)
