Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject: placing 120gb HD, udma 5 or 6 & what about drive letters
I've copied c and d to pc with flashget, cause when I get my spare 120GB hd from home, I'm going to prep it with xboxhdm & put it in xbox,
about placing new hd, some of my hd are udma-5 and not 6, will the xbox use 5 or 6, cause I've got the choice of a Maxtor 120gb that works under windows at 6, and a WD that runs at udma 5 (will maybe check if that can be fixed, cause my 250gb samsung drive could be set to 6 with a samsung ms dos tool... why does samsung set it to 5 ???)
as long as I don't go over 120 gb I don't need a different install than for the standard hd? or is there a better installation for larger HD? (have AID 4.01 and AID 4.10 Lite),
also can somebody explain what the other drive letters are for? can they be cleaned up or something or should they never be touched,
thanks in advance,
Kind regards
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:
You can check the list of hdds on this site that work with the tab under the scroll at the top of the page whare it has harddrives.
In the set up i wold go with larg hdd setup to be safe and that will give you an F drive.
The drive letters are just added for handleing the space in a large hdd most of the new space wold go to F drive, whare in a largwe hdd (like over 300gb) it will add a G drive since the data will currupt if the space gets too big.
checked that list, mine is: WD Caviar WD1200BB-00GUA0,
it's has 8MB buffer, so it should be lockable according to list (2MB buffer version apparently not):
Western Digital
Published by: Unknown on 6 Apr, 2006
Model Name: Caviar
Model Number: WD1200BB
Size: 120 GB | RPM: N/A | Buffer: 2 MB
Lockable: No | Locking Tools: XboxHDM 1.9
Xbox Version:
v1.6
Western Digital
Published by: Unknown on 25 Jun, 2006
Model Name: Unknown
Model Number: WD1200BB
Size: 120 GB | RPM: N/A | Buffer: 8 MB
Lockable: Yes | Locking Tools: xboxhdm
Xbox Version:
v1.0
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject:
Heres a list you can compair too if that helps, and its no prob man this is what i do for the HQ and im loveing it.
http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list
the CD boots, I press 1, but then when I type xboxhd I get this (copied this text from 2nd link):
Looking for CD-ROM in /dev/hda
Looking for CD-ROM in /dev/hdb
Looking for CD-ROM in /dev/hdc
((all the way down to /dev/hdt))
Linux CD not found! Insert it and try again...
(I've copied this text from 2nd link)
quite some people have this problem, also think it's hardware related...
well it wasn't easy... everything thing that could go wrong, went wrong,
but I made it!
I unlocked my original xbox hd with configmagic,
than I cloned disks with Winhex,
then I locked the hd with hdlock, but atapdw showed that it was frozen (apparently my bios did not allow the lock commando...), so I had to put power connector in after bios loaded drives, than it finally worked!
I've formatted the f drive, now I have 106xxx mb free space on f,
so that looks pretty correct (total of 111GB), but I don't have g drive,
writing aid4.10 now & will uninstall mod and reinstall it,
grtz & thx for all help,
take care!
Regards
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
my original HD:
- 768 kb buffer,
- probably 5400 rpm (some say it's better to not go faster, because for example a 7200 rpm drive produces more heat and could cause overheating, I so far have no problems with that, I even configure XBMC to target temp. 45C, then fan operates silently (very loud fan on my Crystal v1.6 xbox...),
- jumper was set to cable select, but works also as master,
also the original xbox hard disk (Western Digital) was ATA-100 (udma-5),
would the xbox motherboard support ATA-133 (udma-6), or will a ATA-133 work at ATA-100 in the xbox?
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