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Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: SoulStealer on February 19, 2004, 08:48:00 AM

is it the EvoX dash that is saying you have 0 space? Or is it another app? Are you using the G: partition?

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: dewmonger on February 19, 2004, 08:56:00 AM

Z: is a cache drive, so you don't need to do anything with it.  It will automatically clear itself out when you play a different game.  If you feel you must clear it out manually though, you can use boxplorer or ftp in to clear it.

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: Psoridian on February 19, 2004, 09:06:00 AM

I'm not using the G partition (UseGDrive = No),  and it's the dash that's telling me that there's no free space on Z.  I know it's just cache space, but I can't even FTP files to it.  If a game is denied access to Z:, I'm assuming that it'll crash.  Is this truly the case?

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: SoulStealer on February 19, 2004, 09:41:00 AM

dont put games in the z partition

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: Psoridian on February 19, 2004, 09:51:00 AM

That's not what I'm asking.  I'm wondering if games that use the cache will crash if they happen to want to use the Z drive.  If the Z drive isn't accessible, will they just choose X or Y instead?

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: nemt on February 19, 2004, 11:20:00 AM

Suprise suprise!

X: Y: and Z: are all temporary partitions, and anything you store on them will be lost.  Next time read a FAQ.

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: Psoridian on February 19, 2004, 06:22:00 PM

Maybe I'm not making myself clear...
On my original Xbox hard drive, Evo-x reported that:
X had 786.300.928 bytes free
Y had 786.300.928 megs free
Z had 786.300.928 megs free

After installing my new drive and using the Evo-X disk to partition/format it:
X had 786.300.928 megs free
Y had 786.300.928 megs free
Z had 0 megs free

This 0 bothers me.
FTP will not let me write to Z drive, which leads me to believe that there is no Z partition
and X-ecuter 4981.06 is just faking its existence to keep the Xbox happy.

So you're saying that this isn't a problem?  Xbox games that require the usage of Z drive will not crash if they're denied access to Z?  The game will just cache to X or Y?

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: networkBoy on February 19, 2004, 07:49:00 PM

I've never heard of this.  In theory the game should use X or Y, but you never know.  A way to confirm this would be to load three games in order (that you know use cacheing) if the third doesn't crans then chances are you'll be ok.
-nB

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: dewmonger on February 20, 2004, 08:49:00 AM

Ok, your latest explanation makes things a little more clear.  I would think that this problem is probably caused by an improper formatting since it is a new drive.  Try doing the format again.  I would recommend using the ftp RAW command on the Z drive as it seems the others are already formatted properly.

Title: Z Drive Has No Free Space.
Post by: Psoridian on February 20, 2004, 11:19:00 AM

It worked!  I just formatted partitions 1-6 and now it all works!  Thanks a lot!