I've just got SP193 & "someone who wishes to remain anonymous" 48BIT HDDOSD to work on 500GB SATA HDD on my PS2 TEST model... it seems the hosdsys.elf was being flagged as a DVD KELF. Fix that in no time & upload it. I was just looking at a PS2 video on YouTube, most likely uploaded by krHACKen and seems that he made a 16MB PP. partition for ruing uLE from HDDOSD. However uLE only lets you make a 128MB or bigger partition, does anyone know how this may work? Knowing this will be great for adding Apps to HDDOSD, save a lot HDD data. Yes FHDB is a easier way but sadly some of us like to not see that logo all the time & have it more or less like how Sony tired to made it. Look at 1:05 for partition size.
128MB is the minimum "atomic" quantity on partition sizes and any partition smaller than that (if you hack the APA driver to allow for less than that) will still be aligned within a boundary of 128Mb. Which is why it's silly allow for less than that much. APA means "Aligned Partition Allocation", by the way.
Let see if I'm getting this right, You can (if you fine a way) to make a partition under 128MB but it will more or less be using 128MB anyway? Now that I looked at the video once more, its seems the __system partition is also at 16MB as well. I've also seen a video that seems to be showing a PSX Unit booting into HDDOSD & not its XBM. That seems like it may be useful for users that have bad HDD... however it may need something done to the flash chip or maybe it only good for real Sony HDDs.
Yup. It's also known that the XMB can be installed onto a SCPH-20401. It works, except that there is no space for video-recording. I don't know if the boot loader on the flash device is compatible with the HDD Browser, but it definitely has to be a SONY disk (i.e. SCPH-20401).
I'll like to try that out sometime, maybe save my HDD some life time for it. Then try doing that HDDOSD thing.. if I can fine out how it works.. most likely hosdsys.elf renamed the name that used to start-up XMB or something like that or maybe _mbr KELF.
That would be essentially making a full installation of the HDD Browser on the PSX. You probably just have to install the HDD Browser on it and delete all the files in the flash storage. But, why? D:
It's not. IIRC, the boot loader of the flash was the HDD Browser MBR code, or a custom flash boot loader which launched the decrypted MBR KELF of the HDD Browser from a USB stick. You know, I used to run things from a launcher in the xFlash.
Well I'm thinking if you can only use a Sony 40GB HDD if the 160GB or 250GB HDD dies. You'll have a way of loading some games, etc & most likely not have to fix the other laser lens.. if it stopped working on you. @krHACKen, Is that video is by you right? Does the partition only look to be using 16MB? Any point in trying to make partitions under 128MB? Also is it hard to setup HDDOSD on a PSX? I'm thinking of trying it out on a SCPH-20401 40GB HDD, if it can be done on it.
Yes. I don't know. But since it's a file system violation, I wouldn't be surprised if writing above 16MB overlaps the next partitions up to 128MB. Not really. The purpose was to set up the HDDOSD on a SD card and make it read/boot as fast as possible, just for the LOLs. So I did several things like rehashing the KELFs with raw blocs, shrinked the partitions... For one of the tests, I even got rid of the MBR program, hardcoded the boot path into hosdsys, compressed (cuz a MBR KELF cannot be larger than 1725 sectors/883200 bytes) and signed hosdsys, then wrote that KELF to the MBR. It was easy for me, because the HDD was my original PSX HDD and the xFlash bootloader was already set up. My PSX is dead now, so I can't try out. But I guess the easiest way to set up the HDDOSD on a PS2 HDD for the PSX is to : - Re-hash hosdsys.elf; - Put the PS2 HDD in the PSX; - Boot uLE with FMCB, format the PS2 HDD then copy the osd100 folder to the __system partition; - Write a re-hashed HDDOSD MBR KELF to the MBR (not sure it's needed, but I'd do it); - Decrypt the HDDOSD MBR KELF, add it an ELF header, and copy it to your MC so it's run by FMCB. A MC-less install would be harder, since you need to get access to the xFlash and install a bootloader which turns the PSX to PS2 mode (yeah I forgot that part in my previous post) and runs the HDDOSD MBR ELF. FMCB is the saviour, it gets you off of the rainbow mode and run your things .
