Big FATX driver.

[Oscar Saavedra]

Hi. It is a noob question, so please be patient.

Ive read you've made a fatx driver and you are using it for the 
development on the xbox.

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.

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Oscar,

--- Oscar Saavedra [e-mail] 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.

Thanks
Steven

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[Hartmut Birr]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> Hi Oscar,
>
> --- Oscar Saavedra [e-mail] 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

[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 [e-mail] wrote:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
> > Hi Oscar,
> >
> > --- Oscar Saavedra [e-mail] 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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[KJKHyperion]

Oscar Saavedra 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.

nope, the PC disk driver won't recognize the XBox partition table, 
ReactOS will find no disk volumes apart from the CD-ROM unit, hence the 
FatX driver won't even be loaded. At the moment, the XBox partition 
table is recognized by the HAL - we could either add support for XBox 
drives to all builds of ReactOS, or write a special disk driver