The question here is: when really are those 32k clusters needed? From what I've found: with disks ~>250Gb. But: disks or partitions? I would prefer to avoid big clusters, but on the other hand - if I have to have them on this big partition only then the waste shouldn't really be big (as the numer of files vs their size isn't that great).
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:
You just need 32k for large partitions and only if the partition is larger then about 230GB to be safe.
dartht33bagger Moderator
Joined: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 5408 Location: Oregon, USA
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:23 am Post subject:
What wes is saying is you'll be ok with 16k clusters because with a 131 gb F:\ and the rest to G:\ is not making a large partition. _________________
Gucek Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jul 05, 2008 Posts: 9
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:59 am Post subject:
Hmmmm.... I went with "everything for F - nothing for G" option somewhere - so assume that my ~230GB F: partition should have 32k clusters, just to be safe...? I'm guessing that AID's option 'Larger HDD (E+F+G)' takes care of this? (damn. now I'm not even sure if I didn't chose just 'Large' - it's almost 9 in the morning and it was an all-nighter for me ).
In any case: after all the installation AID shows nicely that I have F: ~230GB and G:0GB. So it's just like I expected (and wanted). But XBpartitioner says "LBA48 info not found...", and all the other scarry stuff and then doesn't show that F and G partitions at all (and I suppose it should). So - should I worry/be scared? I really wouldn't like to loose the data after I fill up the drive...
wes213 Administrator
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:04 am Post subject:
So if xbox partitioner is showing you have free space just put it all in F with 32k and you will be fine.
Gucek Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jul 05, 2008 Posts: 9
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:
The (F) partition is formated and shows ok (like said - in AID - and now also in other apps). I would like to be sure that it's ok. How can I check for cluster size? (if XBpartitioner shows just that LBA48 error and doesn't show it?). I have BIOS X2 4983.06 which - as far as I checked - should support LBA48. So what is that message about "Custum partition will not work with this BIOS"?!?
(sorry for all this but please note that I did loose data previously because of LBA48 issue - I rebooted my Win2K system to Win98 not knowing that it doesn't support it at all - everything seemed to be all right until some day Win2k stopped booting. Apparently it works until data exceed 32-bit addressing boundary or something like that - then data just loop'ed into 'random' places.)
Right now I'm starting to expand my backed ISOs to that F drive with Qwix. And I'm going to sleep. At this point the worst case scenario is to loose about 2-5 hours of work.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject:
Have you made an X-2 config .ini to run with the chip?
Gucek Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jul 05, 2008 Posts: 9
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:
I believe I didn't. I basically just replaced old 8-10GB dive with 250GB and booted AID.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
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Gucek Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jul 05, 2008 Posts: 9
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject:
As of this moment I have: what seems to be plain, unpatched X2 4983.06 (256). That's what BIOS Checker says. I have 230GB partition F: showing ok. I'm filling it up, but nothing that I couldn't re-FTP, also (just in case) I make regular game-save backups to PC, because I'm quite sure something is wrong... I tried to flash BIOS with any other 256 BIOS from AID, but it refused. Have no i dea why (some switch on modchip?)
I'm beginning to go crazy...
(and just btw: is there any way to point AID BIOS Flasher on CD/DVD to my LBA48 patched BIOS no X's HDD?!?)
(btw: is there any way to check if the BIOS is already LBA48 patched - afai checked - it's only about some 2 bytes...)
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:
Just burn the AID ISO to DVD-r and turn off the chips flash protection.
Then flash it with the 5035.
As for the LBA48 patch its built in to the X-2 chip as you can see in the chips features.
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