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It's best if you have hot air soldering equiptment, but I've heard of people using a very fine wire or dental pick. You put it behind the pins, then heat up each pin individually and gently pull outward. the pin will lift up, then you move onto the next one. This is a very slow process (each chip ha...

If you take apart the xbox and remove the motherboard you can ship it pretty easily without fear of breaking anything. Just securely wrap it in a static bag and some bubble wrap and you're good to go.

That is insane...

But I'm Canadian, eh?

Ok, FATX is a relatively simple file system.. Couldn't we just "allocate" a large area in the filesystem (without actually writing a file there) that corresponds to the location of the partition that you have created on disk?

I forgot to add that with a native install and 128MB Gentoox is like 5x faster than loopback on fatx with 64MB.

I did the 128MB myself too. I really don't like XFCE, so I wanted to use KDE, but it is unusable on 64MB, however it works quite well with 128MB!

I'm still looking for a good source of those chips though...

The problem that I am finding is that Evox doesn't like the normal partition table -- I guess the xbox uses a different partition format. So it will assign all space to the F drive which can cause overwriting problems. How was the LBA48 support added into evoxdash? Is the source code for that availa...

Ok, don't flame me if this has been beaten to death, but I haven't been able to find any info on it other than "it can't be done" which I don't believe... I have some xboxen that I wish to put a native install of Gentoox on, but still be able to load the dash and play games. Now I can fdis...

If this has already been covered please forgive me.

Is there any way to do this with the Evox bios? I have a box setup nicely using a modchip and Evox, it'd be nice if I could just modify the bios somehow like mentioned to provide me a method for a native install with a 120GB hard drive.

Thanks.

wow where do you get 120GB HDDs for $40?

I know it's easier to replace, but I'm just curious about repair. The owner of the box just wants to get it back working again like normal, doesn't want mod or anything else.

I have a pair of xboxen here with bad sectors on their HDDs. Is there any way to mask this with fatx as bad so that they don't get used, or a fsck program for fatx?

Might be a dumb question, but did you change the jumper to switch it to a slave drive?

You absolutely need the dev directory, otherwise you won't be able to use any hardware, which obviously will cause problems. The /proc directory doesn't need to be copied, as this is mounted specially. You can use cp to copy the /dev directory like so: cp -dpR /dev /destination/dev/ In fact, using t...

I²C is a very simple bus (inter integrated circuit) that requires only 3 wires (clock/data/ground) and can allow several different chips to talk to each other. SMBUS in your PC is somewhat similar to this. The LPC bus in your xbox is similar too. PCs don't have an I²C bus so any drivers that try to ...

How are you doing the copy? You should be using the backup option or -dpR (something like that, check the help on cp).