Ok so I have been going around trying to figure out why my 2.5TB usb drive crashes WiiMC.
I reported the bug over on the bugtracker at WiiMC.
It was then closed by Tantric with the comment:
So it looks like > 2TB support won't happen through libntfs. It has been supported through cios d2x v6 though.
Is there any way of incorporating cios d2x v6 with WiiMC?
Or is there another way for WiiMC to support > 2TB hard drives?
I would also like to thank Tantric, psyblade, the devs over at libntfs and tueidj (sorry if i spelt that wrong) for putting up with me when I have been trying to figure out this problem.
I reported the bug over on the bugtracker at WiiMC.
It was then closed by Tantric with the comment:
QUOTE said:From the trace, this is/was a bug in libext2fs-wii, not WiiMC:
8064b7d4 8064b744 80604224 805fec24 8015e350 8015e884 8015eddc 806206a0 80620650
??:0 - free()
??:0 - free()
??:0 - ext2fs_open2()
??:0 - ext2Mount()
wiimc/source/fileop.cpp:477
wiimc/source/fileop.cpp:577
wiimc/source/fileop.cpp:148
devkitpro/libogc/libogc/lwp_threads.c:215
devkitpro/libogc/libogc/lwp_threads.c:204
No idea if the June 6 update of libext2fs-wii will fix it (http://code.google.com/p/libext2fs-wii/source/list). Either way, not a WiiMC bug.
So then I reported the bug over at google code for libntfs and got a reply from [email protected] who said:
QUOTEThe library supports it. The problem is that WiiMC does not support it when searching for an NTFS partition. Report this issue on WiiMC. HBC does not support NTFS at all.
Also libogc has no function right now to get the sector size for a drive which is why it is not supported in WiiMC.
I made a custom USB handler and tested this. The library definately supports sector sizes of 4kb.
A size of > 2 TB is also not supported by the current libogc USB implementation. Nothing I can do about.
The bugs you mentioned are bugs not related to the filesystem and the libntfs library but the USB handles.
So it looks like > 2TB support won't happen through libntfs. It has been supported through cios d2x v6 though.
Is there any way of incorporating cios d2x v6 with WiiMC?
Or is there another way for WiiMC to support > 2TB hard drives?
I would also like to thank Tantric, psyblade, the devs over at libntfs and tueidj (sorry if i spelt that wrong) for putting up with me when I have been trying to figure out this problem.