[ros-general] Big FATX driver.

[TwoTailedFox]

It's only possible to use an Xbox HDD if it's unlocked. All Xbox HD's
are locked to the Motherboard ID, so it can't be accessed in your
atypical PC.

On 9/23/05, Hartmut Birr <osexpert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
>
> >Hi Oscar,
> >
> >--- Oscar Saavedra <oscar at elportalito.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Now, i'd like to know if this fatx driver can be used to access an
> >>unlocked fatx HD connected to a i386 machine that is booting the reactOS
> >>live CD.
> >>
> >>Am i dreaming? Or can this be done?
> >>
> >>I just want to know if i could recover my multimedia files from the F
> >>partition using my PC some day.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes it can be. Our vfatfs.sys has been tested in Windows before so it should work if you wanted to
> >do it now. Installing our driver on Windows would be a bit of a pain because you would need to
> >manually add the service and tell Windows to use it to mount that drive but I know some people
> >have tested the driver before under Win2k.
> >
> I'm not sure if it is possible to access a real xbox disk on a pc . I've
> done some testing with our vfat driver on w2k. I've used the fatx file
> system. The fatx file system was installed in a normal partition with
> the type 0xaa. The disk driver must identify the xbox disk and must
> create partition device objects. I'm not sure if disk.sys is able to do
> this. I've never used a disk from a xbox because I don't own one.
>
> - Hartmut
>
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