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Title: Mounting The D:
Post by: explicitlyrics100 on June 11, 2003, 05:07:00 AM

highly doubt it, would be awesome but just would have to change so much code on the xbox. i will cross my fingers but it would just be too much work

Title: Mounting The D:
Post by: juan23 on June 11, 2003, 06:34:00 AM

this maybe stupid, but what about creating a dual boot, example most new chips come with 4 banks of 256k, cant we create a program, so it will ask what bios we want to run from.  so we can run cromwell so we can have however many hdd, in it, or run a xbox bios that will switch back to normal, something along that line.

Title: Mounting The D:
Post by: JbOnE on June 11, 2003, 06:58:00 AM

in theory - if the drive was either brand new or wiped with all 0's, and the config sector manually added - shouldn't it see the drive ? it's not like the xbox sees the dvd drive as anything more as another logical drive - games don't refer to the drive in lba sectors as in a ps2 - just another drive. having a hd to play with i'll give it a shot and post whatever good/bad comes from it

pEAcE
JbonE

Title: Mounting The D:
Post by: Mage on June 11, 2003, 10:29:00 AM

QUOTE (JbOnE @ Jun 11 2003, 07:58 AM)

in theory - if the drive was either brand new or wiped with all 0's, and the config sector manually added - shouldn't it see the drive ? it's not like the xbox sees the dvd drive as anything more as another logical drive - games don't refer to the drive in lba sectors as in a ps2 - just another drive. having a hd to play with i'll give it a shot and post whatever good/bad comes from it pEAcE JbonE

PS2 programs don't even deal with the cdrom like that...fio_fopen, rpc works wonders. ;p
The cdrom file driver sub-system does everything much like how the bios does all the low level for the xbox.

Title: Mounting The D:
Post by: gamemaster14 on June 15, 2003, 11:23:00 AM

If you could even get the xbox the reconize the second hard drive as one big D couldnt you use somthing like menu-x to change games?