Post by: athlonoc on September 07, 2003, 11:39:00 PM
But will I need to alter the bios to support this, or does the patcher do all that is needed.
I have never got xbtool to work to alter bios, as I see the new one has a tick box for LB48 suport.
Thanks
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 08, 2003, 01:38:00 AM
Again do I need to do this and use this bios in order for the evox >137gig to work.
Post by: heinrich on September 08, 2003, 02:50:00 AM
Patch your bios for LBA48
AND
Either patch evox yourself, or find a patched one 'in the usual places'
Post by: athlonoc on September 08, 2003, 04:06:00 AM
Thanks
Lee
Post by: Xeero on September 08, 2003, 04:23:00 AM
| QUOTE (stormace @ Sep 8 2003, 07:29 AM) |
| Only question is, XtoolBox and BoxExplorer doesnt see the G drive. If I had a choice, I'd put all the gigs on F. Less hassle...but AutoItem all works, sees everything I put on the G. |
Just like EvoX had to be patched to recognize the G partition, so do other apps like Xtoolbox and boXplorer. I know development on boXplorer has halted, so if anything there will be a 3rd-party patch, and who knows when that will come.
Post by: logan6988 on September 08, 2003, 12:02:00 PM
Post by: Motocrossman on September 08, 2003, 03:11:00 PM
Post by: logan6988 on September 08, 2003, 06:10:00 PM
Post by: heinrich on September 08, 2003, 06:15:00 PM
| QUOTE (logan6988 @ Sep 8 2003, 04:02 PM) |
| so if i want to get the most out of my 160 gig hdd then i have to reformat the f partition with the bios patcher in xbtool? or do i just apply the patch to the bios in xbtool then patch the evox also? sorry if that was confusing.. |
That is your decision. You need to do one or the other. Either patch the bios for a larger F, and format F, or patch the bios and evox, and format G.
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 02:43:00 AM
I have just installed new 180gig drive.
I have patched bios 4977.01 to allow lba48 (first tick only on xbtool only)
Looking at evox I shows me 129gig spare on 'F'
But free space on 'G' is blank
I didn't want 'G' there I wanted all assigned to 'F'
Can someone tell me what I did wrong.
Thanks
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 04:36:00 AM
Yes I did all you have mentioned.
I have flashed the bios for use with a new drive ( 1st tick only to use all of 'F' ) is that right.
Then put onto the drive the moddified dash and in the settings menu it shows 'G' as having no space allocated, but it shows up. Also is this right for sole use of 'F'
My HD is an IBM GXP180 180gig
I have tried using flashFXP to try and re-format either 'F' and or 'G' but is keeps telling me the site is not implented ---- what does this mean.
I am well frustrated to death, as I know this should work.
oz_paulb - do you have any suggestions
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 04:39:00 AM
When I put in the fresh drive I used evox auto installer to to format and prepar the drive.
Used the option Format F with DHCP
Is this OK, as I looked at the evox ini with this installer and it said it does this
Info "Install 4034 Dashboard"
Warning "This will format all drives"
Warning "Install msdash 4034"
Warning "Flash BIOS to Evox 2.4"
Progress "Now Installing 4034 Dashboard"
????????????
Thanks
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 05:40:00 AM
I will try the 2.1 installer first.
Also just to inform, I was using evox 3752 ( latest version )
And I used a bios that changed colour just to do just that - making sure it was actually different.
I'll come back if thats OK,
otherwise if I get sorted then thanks for your time and this known great program.
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 06:09:00 AM
Changed colour and it shows up fine
Had a look again and still shows 'F' as 129gig spare and 'G' as 0
I have slayers 1.5 installer haven't got 2.1
I'll give that one a go first and if no luck get hold of 2.1
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 07:02:00 AM
I'm beginning to think the worst, and that this IBM drive may not be compatible.
But I'm puzzled as to why my settings show a G drive with the modded evoxdash when the bios was created with only the first tick not to include a 'G' drive.
Maybe this is wrong?
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 07:29:00 AM
Listing
C
D
E
F = 129gig
G = 0
X
Y
Z
I haven't put a new evox.ini in the root of 'C' just copied over the 3.5meg patched evoxdash.
I know my signature shows the true blue mod but this isn't back on at the moment just evox.
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 08:12:00 AM
I've come up against a brick wall
I've just used slayers 2.1 installer.
Selected install new large HDD.
Waited for it to finish.
Then copied over my patched evoxdash.
It is still showing in system utilities all 7 partitions and 'G' as having no free space and with 'F' as having 129gig
Should I replace the evox.ini after the new slayer install with a modded one?
When creating new bios I only tick enable LBA48 and not the other box - is this right for using only 'F' but larger than 137?
Can anyone send me a bios that they have that this works on.
Thanks
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 09:36:00 AM
I have just installed fresh 2.1 slayer evox.
I have only 129gig spare on 'F' but it should be around 170gig
Non-patched as you suggested.
How can I tell if the bios is good for this.
Can you guide me a little further, or even send your bios over to me, and I'll put that in.
Big thanks if you can.
Once I know the bios is definately OK, then it must be the drive I bought.
Lee
Post by: athlonoc on September 09, 2003, 10:29:00 AM
It's now sorted.
I hope anyone following this thread has learned from it like I did.
Bios seems to have been the problem.
Now showing full hard drive free space.
What a bloke paulb is.
Post by: heinrich on September 09, 2003, 12:27:00 PM
| QUOTE (oz_paulb @ Sep 9 2003, 11:09 AM) |
| Does the 'patched' EvoX that's 'in the usual places' include a new evox.ini/skin.ini file (with G: display in the skin)? If so, it may always show "0" for G: - I don't think anything is 'smart' enough to recognize that G: doesn't exist/should not be shown. |
No, but in the readme, it does say that evox.ini/skin.ini will need to be edited. Even before you do this, G still shows up on the Settings page.
BTW: I patched 4977, works on 2 xbox's, both with maxtor 160gig drives. (different models though)
Post by: pbot on September 09, 2003, 08:12:00 PM
Thanks
Post by: logan6988 on September 10, 2003, 02:57:00 PM
| QUOTE | ||
That is your decision. You need to do one or the other. Either patch the bios for a larger F, and format F, or patch the bios and evox, and format G. |
if i just patch my evoxdash.xbe, then format G, will i lose ne thing on F,, i mean will it automatically format F? I have a lot of backups and a 160 gig HDD, what do i need to do to not lose ne thing on F,C, or E, but make a G partition to allocate the remaining gigz too? thanks
Post by: logan6988 on September 13, 2003, 10:22:00 AM
Post by: stormace on September 13, 2003, 10:25:00 AM