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Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: corkinator on November 24, 2005, 05:12:00 PM
Quick question. Forgive my lack of knowledge on this subject.

HD size support comes down to which bios you use right?

Is 137 gigs still the limit? Can certain bios' use bigger drives and if so, how and does it run smooth like a typical drive?

Just looking at replacing my 80gigger before I retire the old friend to the bench ;)
Thought the bigger, the better B)

Cheers and thank you  :)
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: effbee05 on November 24, 2005, 07:27:00 PM
I think you can use up to a 400gb but after 250gb you need to run a .67 bios to avoid data corruption.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: vodkafish on November 28, 2005, 11:57:00 AM
Nice, I was just hunting for this answer.  Does it have to be ATA100, 133 or any other specific speed?
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: deadparrot on November 28, 2005, 02:41:00 PM
So long as it is 8gb or larger and PATA/ATA it will work.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: flashfreak on December 01, 2005, 03:57:00 AM
.06 bioses use one big F drive for everything, .67 make F up to 137, then G for the rest. I dunno what the numbers mean but thats how it goes.

I got my bro a 200gig and tried the .67 for a 137gig F and the remaining 65 or whatever for G, but i couldn't get a G: going, i was using unleashx but thats supposed to support it. I ended up using .06 and just having a 183gig F:.

But yeah, pretty much all new bioses support however big u want
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: lobes17 on December 02, 2005, 06:20:00 AM
i guess that u dont realize that formatted 200gb hdd are actually 186gb...so ur bro is only missing 3gb
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: torbjorn on December 02, 2005, 07:06:00 PM
u also have to enable G:drive..   in system settings on evox or avalaunch and so on..

i have 4983.67 and an 320 gb disc.

i had the 4981.06 bios but had to change it cuz of corruption..

and i found it out after filling 320 gb into it..   D"OH!

so use .67 its better-

the 6 and 7 stands for f and g part.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: ShadowElitePro on December 02, 2005, 07:08:00 PM
No size at all. All u got to do is switch your bios.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: theperfekt001 on December 02, 2005, 11:17:00 PM
new bioses support up to 2 terabyte hdds.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: pokeroo on December 07, 2005, 05:43:00 AM
QUOTE(flashfreak @ Dec 1 2005, 05:28 AM) View Post

.06 bioses use one big F drive for everything, .67 make F up to 137, then G for the rest. I dunno what the numbers mean but thats how it goes.

I got my bro a 200gig and tried the .67 for a 137gig F and the remaining 65 or whatever for G, but i couldn't get a G: going, i was using unleashx but thats supposed to support it. I ended up using .06 and just having a 183gig F:.

But yeah, pretty much all new bioses support however big u want


I got a 200GB drive as well and it report around 186GB. This is right because manufacturers use 1000 instead of 1024. Remember that 1Kb = 1024 bytes, 1MB = 1024Kb and 1GB = 1024MB - everything is base 2 not 10. If you do the math it comes out to 186GB; some of which will be used for C,E,X,Y,Z and a little bit for the partition table. I ended up with 174GB on F. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: nj12nets on December 19, 2005, 08:02:00 PM
5035 would work for a 400gb without corruption rite?
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: ChillenPyro on December 19, 2005, 09:22:00 PM
Ok this might not be the right spot for the question but I'm desperte. I put a X-Bit chip and an 80 gb in my xbox over a year ago. I decided to upgrade to a 250. I can only get the 137gb. I've been reading everything I can and looking everywhere to fix this. i know I need a bios with the LBA48 support but I don't know which ones have that or where I can get one. if anyone can help me out that'd be great.

Thanks
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: theperfekt001 on December 20, 2005, 01:56:00 PM
every new bios supports it. i recommend an x2 bios (5035 is newest) which is on xbins.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: nj12nets on December 20, 2005, 05:11:00 PM
i threw in a 400gb to a customers xbox (biggest hdd i seen)

now the bios in there only supports f (5035) i used xbpartitioner to keep the sizes of f and g even and under 250gb so no corruption occurs.(i heard it can when there that big)   now my problem is if i leave the bios as it is with it set to f takes all/no g partition and use it with both partitions will the data corrupt?

what should i do about this, t hank you
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: greenday54261 on December 20, 2005, 08:39:00 PM
If you go above about 250GB on partition 6 (F:) then there is a higher chance of data corruption. Which is why you should use a .67-type BIOS on anything above about 200GB, just to be sure.. A drive smaller than that would create an annoyingly small G partition (at least annoyingly small for me).

@nj12nets: Use X2ool to patch X2.5035 to use F and G. And don't use X2ool to do anything else with the BIOS; it's not fully compatible with 5035-only LBA48 stuff.

This post has been edited by greenday54261: Dec 21 2005, 04:40 AM
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: nj12nets on December 20, 2005, 08:07:00 PM
the option partition 6 up to 137b and partition 7 takes the rest.

thats not how i have it set up though. i

i have them at 186gb each
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: heinrich on January 01, 2006, 07:07:00 PM
no, the data is corrupted.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: heinrich on January 01, 2006, 08:15:00 PM
fatx will support 274,877,906,944 byte partitions (256 gig), dont write data pass that point on any partition or you will "wrap around" and begin corrupting data.

I think your math is bad though

.4 + 4 + 150 + 250 is more than 400, not accounting for the space you will lose after formatting.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: killerbob on January 08, 2006, 07:30:00 PM
GReat Thanks for the answer
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: rallycobra on January 29, 2006, 07:17:00 PM
is there a way to use xbtool to make  x2 4981 work with  lba48? I have 3 boxes that are 1.0 and have 256k mod chips. I could rip the chips out and flash the onboard bios with a 512k bios if necessary. Can I upgrade the 4981 to lba48? I tried using xbtool, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
Title: What's The Hard Drive Size Limit?
Post by: YoshiGish on February 04, 2006, 06:31:00 PM
i upgraded my Maxtor 80GB drive with a WD 320GB. i set it up with X3 Config Live. F was 120GB left and G was 170GB left, i loaded 80GB on my G drive and loaded 80GB on my F drive, not exactly the same amount, but roughly the same. for some reason, my G:\ partition dissapeared i can see it with FTP (i.e. FileZilla) but i cannot load the directory, it fails. what do i do? i've spent 2 weeks since i got my new HDD transferring from my computer to new xbox drive, then old xbox drive to computer, then computers old xbox contents to new xbox, giving this drive all my contents on my computer and a copy of my old hard drive (which is still accessable saftly in my F:\ partition, so i hope) can anyone help?