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jims5150 wrote:...sata extenders make the job neater.
No cutting away at the hard drive cradle.

UJLammy wrote:I'm not sure if the Sabrent adapter has been revised or if I got a busted one but I couldn't get it to work.
I tested it with these 2 HDDs:
Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2 TB SATA2 5400rpm 32 MB HD204UI/Z4
Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA 7200rpm 32MB ST3500320AS
Both hard drives work flawlessly on a PC.
I tested on 2 different XBOX systems, 1st is a 1.1 with X2-5035 TSOP flash and the 2nd one is a 1.5 with ind-5003.67 TSOP flash, both systems work fine with the original hard drives and have Unleash-X and all popular apps installed and working.
So basically with the Sabrent I get the exact same results with both hard drives and systems, the Slayers 2.7 disc runs horribly slow and is unusable/unresponsive. AID 4.53 detects the new hard drive formats it fine, then the AID main menu comes up and everything looks normal but when I get into most of the menus like file explorer or the dashboard installation menu I just get garbled/unreadable text and a lot of the options just trigger a reboot.
I tried Chimp2618, it detects the new hard drive and completes the cloning process with no errors, however I was unable to boot any of my XBOX systems with any of my 2 cloned hard drives.
I plugged the hard drives to my pc after this to check the contents and used Xplorer360.beta6, with both of them I get the same results, all partitions are accessible but partition 6 (F) shows weird/corrupted character file names and everything I try to copy into this partition also shows corrupted file names. All other partitions seem to be fine and I can copy and extract files with no problems and all the files are the correct sizes.
So I tried installing dashboards to both E and F anyway but still was unable to get any of my systems to boot.

One last thing I would like to mention is I actually tried another adapter prior to this, I bought this cheapo adapter from Amazon based on what I read on other threads and forums:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005N7 ... 06_s00_i00
The adapter actually worked fine at first, Slayers ran at it's normal speed and was able to format with no issues, however the adapter died on me after a few minutes (to the point where it caused lock ups when connected to my PC and causing the IDE port on my PC overheat, I guess it was starting to short out)

EDIT: Forgot to add I did all these tests using 2 different Ultra DMA ATA133 cables.

xman wrote:I use the M8 bioses on the 2.7 Slayer's disc myself on Seagate 2TBs. Just make sure you use the F and G drive bioses and you use the one that suits your machine type be it 1.0-1.5 or the 1.6 one. I also use that Slayers disc to build the 2TB. You must tell Slayers to build a "Large HDD". However you the need to then select "Add apps to E drive". It doesn't do this when building a "Large HDD", it uses F/apps as the booing location and you don't want this. It must boot using E/apps. Then you use Slayers to make your shortcut, this being "Make XBMC my booting app on stock HDD". Do these steps and you should have a 2TB formatted and be able to see the whole HDD however, it will not be "clustered correctly". For this you will then be using XbPt 1.3 and use it just on your F and G drives. Any issues, I'll be around.

fastmem wrote:I had an M8+ 06 Bios when I flashed it to M8+ 67 everything worked.

fastmem wrote:So when you have an 67 bios you can use a large drive 1TB, 1,5TB or 2TB with no problems.

fxmech wrote:Hybrid drives don't work, period.