What X3 bios to use with Maxtor 300 gig HD?

[ljvargo]

Hi all,

I have learned alot from all the posts. I am trying to add a new hard drive. The new drive is a Maxtor 300 gig HD. The model is 6L300R0. I pick this harddrive becasue it was listed as a good drive to use and it has alot of space. I am having trouble booting up to format it. I'm not sure which bios to flash my X3 in order for it to work properly. It would be extremely helpful if anyone has better instruction then I have been able to find.

thanks in advance for your help.

1.6B, X3, Maxtor 300 gig(6L300R0)

 

[adam.giles]

Use the latest X3 bios (v16_plus verison). Make sure you partition that HD up into less than 250Gig partitions.

 

[ljvargo]

adam.giles, thanks for the quick response.

I'm new to the forum and this is my first box to be modified. I'm use the X3_3294 bios. Am I suppose to partition the HD before I connect it up? If so what should I use to partition it. I thought the bios would allow me to do that through the hardrive utilities... I have already backup my old drive to my pc.

Again, thanks in advance.

 

[islander223]

You can partition it on X3CL choose >137G takes G partition. BTW, if you can't boot with your new HDD, check the jumper setting...it should be on "cable select".

 

[ljvargo]

I'm not sure what you mean by X3CL? I do have the HD set to Cable Select. When I boot to X3_3924, it comes back with a error 09.

 

[kjbuente]

I have the exact same drive as you. I ended up having to do a hot swap while im in X3CL (Xecuter 3 config Live, the screen that the mod chip bring you to when it is first flashed with the X3 bios). After I did that, I had no problem with it.

 

[ljvargo]

I'm not sure what Im' doing wrong. Here is the steps taht I'm taking... I boot up to the bios 3924 with my original drive. I swap in my new drive(Maxtor 300 gig). Go into CL and choose Customize X3 Bios. I select F Drive upto 137Gb - G Drive gets the rest. I go out of CL and go into New Hard Drive Upgrade. I choose to format the partitions.. I then reboot with the new HD. the reboot comes up with an error 9 as before.

I'm sure somewhere I'm missing something easy.

Hope this gives you a little more info as to my problem.

 

[adam.giles]

That all sounds right to me, can't see why it won't work

 

[Martin C]

You shouldn't need to hot-swap any HDD any more.

Check your jumper settings - either select master or cable-select.

Boot the Xbox and hold the white button if you're already disabled booting to X3CL. Otherwise boot and wait. If you don't get the X3CL screen then try the other jumper setting. Bottom line is this: hotswapping your HDD can potentially damage either the HDD, your Xbox or both if you screw it up.

Martin

 

[kjbuente]

What series is your HD?

It should say something like DiamondMax 10, or DiamondMax 16.

Mine says DiamondMax 16, 300GB ATA-133. And if you look at the specks at maxtor's web site, it say max size for this series is 160GB! (probally why I had to do a hot swap, a screwed up drive initilization and it confused my xbox).

Personally, I would go with a seagate or a WD hard drive, but I got this one for free. So I really can not complain.

 

[ljvargo]

The hard drive is a series Maxtor DiamondMax 10. I have changed the jumpers to see if that helps. No change.

I can go into X3CL and see the hard drive. The only way I can get the box to boot up is to hotswap the drive out. It appears to create the partitions. It will not allow me to format a individual partitions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thks in advance,

 

[Martin C]

Right - you can boot to X3CL and the HDD is recognised.

You then need to format it - can you do this?

Finally, you need to rebuild it - X3CL has FTP functions which allows you to do this.

If none of this is working, let me know exactly what happens.

Martin

 

[ljvargo]

Here is the sequence... I boot up using bios build X3_3924. At this time I'm using my old drive. After that I choose X3CL and it takes my to CL screen. This is the time when I exchange my old drive with the new drive. I go into the option to change the size of the drive to >137 Gig. I go ahead and partition the drive and it says it's successful. I then go back to the boot up screen where I try to format the drive. That is when I see the first an error. It say it is unable to format drives or individual drives. If I reboot to the boot screen, it gives an error imediately about the hard drive error (09).

Hope that helps,

 

[Martin C]

That's not what I asked you to do!

Forget about hot-swapping. You don't need to as I already stated in this thread.

Boot with the new HDD in place. The reason you cannot do anything after the hotswap is because the HDD isn't being recognised in the first place.

Try booting the Xbox with the new HDD set to either master or cable select.

It does take a little while to get the X3CL screen up, but be patient.

Martin

 

[ljvargo]

When I boot up the box with the new drive, it immediately errors out with an error 9 and says contact service department.

That is where it sits.

 

[ljvargo]

I forgot to mention, that it doesn't matter the jumper setting Master, slave, or CS.

 

[ljvargo]

Fixed the problem.. I have a bad hard drive. I returned it and got a Western Digital 300 Gig .. Work fine.

Thanks for everyone help.

Larry

 

[dogrox]

Martin, I know this is an older thread but I been reading your posts about the 09 error, and I have also ran in to the same problem as the LJVARGO. Same exact symptoms, running on a X3 3294 bios. Tested both Cable select and Master same results.

My question to you is, if you say NOT to hot swap and still the machine boots up with red light and 09 error. How will it get to the X3CL screen? It just sits there with red light and error on screen and I have to turn off power and hook original drive. Then it works fine.

Will it go to the X3Cl screen on its own? and if so how much time do we need to wait for it to go to the X3CL? If not and you say NOT to hot swap (which i can understand not to do).. how DO we get it to the X3CL with the new drive installed?!

thanx for your help doode!

That's not what I asked you to do!

Forget about hot-swapping. You don't need to as I already stated in this thread.

Boot with the new HDD in place. The reason you cannot do anything after the hotswap is because the HDD isn't being recognised in the first place.

Try booting the Xbox with the new HDD set to either master or cable select.

It does take a little while to get the X3CL screen up, but be patient.

Martin

 

[Martin C]

Martin, I know this is an older thread but I been reading your posts about the 09 error, and I have also ran in to the same problem as the LJVARGO. Same exact symptoms, running on a X3 3294 bios. Tested both Cable select and Master same results.

My question to you is, if you say NOT to hot swap and still the machine boots up with red light and 09 error. How will it get to the X3CL screen? It just sits there with red light and error on screen and I have to turn off power and hook original drive. Then it works fine.

Will it go to the X3Cl screen on its own? and if so how much time do we need to wait for it to go to the X3CL? If not and you say NOT to hot swap (which i can understand not to do).. how DO we get it to the X3CL with the new drive installed?!

thanx for your help doode!

Hi

If you check the reply from the other guy in this thread, it was due to a bad HDD. The best test is to connect it to your PC first and see if you can partition and format it there. If it's a no-go, then it's a bad drive.

When you have a working blank HDD, the X3 CL will boot up instead of Error 09.

Martin

 

[dogrox]

Hi again, thanx for the quick response. I did read that he had a bad harddrive. The harddrive i have was from my pc. it was working in the pc all formated and I even put it back in the PC and repartitioned it with FDISK and reformated it. But that was FAT format, not FATX. The drive works fine in the PC. This is odd.

When you say BLANK, do you mean low level formated only?! with NO pc formated partition table on it?

From what I read the error 9 has to do with PIO/ DMA modes? Is there any more information regarding the different modes for the xbox? I understand how the modes and transfer rates effect a PC, but is this the same case with the XBOX?

I had reformated the HD and put my operating system back on it and it is running fine back on the pc! I like to use it in the xbox instead!

Thanx for your patience.

Hi

If you check the reply from the other guy in this thread, it was due to a bad HDD. The best test is to connect it to your PC first and see if you can partition and format it there. If it's a no-go, then it's a bad drive.

When you have a working blank HDD, the X3 CL will boot up instead of Error 09.

Martin