I've got three XB classic's that I still need to do a teardown on, clean them up and hopefully get them going. FatXplorer is stable as hell and the time and aggravation that it has saved me has been worth every penny I spent for the app. Don't get me wrong, they work just fine for small things like xexmenu and whatnot, but throwing a terabyte of info onto a fatx drive? Forget about it. Sometimes one size of drive won't work or they are just super buggy and crap out in the middle of a transfer.

I'm sold on fatXplorer, all other programs have caused issues for one reason or another. If like me you mod lots of original Xbox consoles for friends and family and fit 1 and 2tb drives it can be very time consuming to copy on content and set them up, this just makes things easier. If you are copying on a few files sure ftp is the way to go but if you are copying on coinops mega pack for example and a few movies it can take hours to do this will be way better. The fatx driver in Linux does not support large drives and I don't know if the kernel patches are in bleeding edge still. On the original xbox, you had to know the sector layout to mount the partitions, but on the they didnt go through all the hastle. You do realize that fatx support has been available natively in linux for years now. Anything that can speed it up is welcome. I have sent Eaton some binary dumps of Xbox drives to play with and hope to see some progress soon, but that is up to him and his available spare time. Of note with the correct sata to ide adaptor you can use a modern sata drive in the Xbox just nothing over 2TB it is hard to get ide drives reasonably priced these days.

The thing is FATXplorer is able to mount the drive in windows like any other usb and as you can imagine it transfers at sata speeds for me where good old ftp on the Xbox at best case is 11mbps with the ftp overhead on top of that. They want how much for that? FATxplorer wasn't made to mount classic xbox consoles and I no luck on my end with a physical attempt.

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