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Simple question about the Sony-labelled drive for PS2:
Does it say "Magic gate" anywhere on the drive like it does on the sony memory cards and on the PS2 above the mc slots?

I have been looking into why I needed to put the error-check for dir/copy failing. It appears it is related to 'dopen'. If I do 'dir mc0:' repetitively, it will fail on the 50th attempt. Copying a file with copyfrom never fails (1500+ repeats -- ~175MB in all). I also tried hdd0: and mass: (just for...

I have to agree about the whole ordeal "sucking". I spent hours reading source and comparing diffs... The silver lining is that I now have a pretty good understanding of how everything ties together! I had seen the threads from over 6 months ago mentionning similar problems, but since the ...

The newest toolchain, with gcc-2.8.1 & binutils-2.9.1 for IOP installed on top, creates working ps2dev9, ps2atad, and ps2hdd IRX . (Without the 'old' IOP stuff on top, the IRX generated by the new toolchain were identical to the previous toolchain.) I've found I must execute 'ps2client devlist' ...

EUREKA!!! I have finally managed to get hd access with IRX that I built myself! On my RH9 box (gcc-3.2.2), ran the toolchain.sh (not the new Nov 30th), then manually installed the binutils-2.9.1 and gcc-2.8.1 as per ooPo 'obsolete' instructions . These IRX are identical (md5) to others I had downloa...

I think I'm getting somewhere... (the recent posts have been invaluable) Last night, I launched the toolchain build on a Redhat 9 box (which has gcc-3.2.2, as opposed to gcc-3.3.3 on FC2). First thing I noticed, ps2dev9 gave identical md5 as what I had built on FC2, but both ps2atad and ps2hdd are d...

pukko, gorim, Thanks for confirming I'm not the only one! But it appears most other people do not have the same problem, so is it possible there's something broken with our installation of the toolchain? I'm shooting in the dark, but haven't there been issues in the past building gcc with other vers...

That's all fine.... So it's hot in this kitchen -- I can take the heat, the flames, and a few insults. All the talk of ftp is nice, but as I said, I haven't concerned myself too much with that yet because I am still unable to get cvs-compiled ps2sdk+ps2link to load ps2hdd without freezing, and no on...

I'm quite willing to help, debug, and even submit patches and fixes! I don't consider myself a programmer, but have no problem reading, understanding, and modifying code -- working as an ISP sysadmin for 10 years, you almost don't have a choice! I've been talking to myself over here about my biggest...

Why is it that there are utils that allow you to transfer whole game discs from PS->PS2 (fap_link,winhiip,hdl_dump), for which there is very limited legitimate use (legit use is copying ISOs of homebrew apps... if you own the game, why not let the ps2 rip it for you), but the other file transfer met...

atad_driver: Error: Command error: status 0xff51, error 0x04. I got this error when I tried code compiled to force 48bit mode (on a non-48bit drive). I get the same behaviour (HD light goes on and system freeze) trying to load ps2atad and ps2hdd from host: in ps2link, but haven't been able to figur...

I wrote a simple wrapper script for ps2client to easily do a complete backup of a memory card. It simply recurses through all the directories and creates an identical structure in the local directory. #!/bin/bash # # wrapper for ps2client to do complete MC backup # # USAGE: mc-backup.sh &...

Just in case 48bit wasn't being detected properly on my drive, I tried bypassing the detection and forcing each of the modes -- simply by changing "lba_48bit = " at lines 915 & 925. When I force 28-bit, I get the same freezing behaviour described above. When I force 48-bit, I get this ...

Ok... I've re-installed the toolchain and all on two different computers and still get the same results. These are the combinations to reproduce 3 different results for each of the above: 1) complete proper working access to hdd 2) loading ps2atad modules and freeze (hd light on, network dead) 3) lo...

(I was sure I had replied yesterday) Thanks Fluke... several factors, including your explanation have convinced to concentrate on other things. The newest LaunchElf, with the browser that works with mc, hdd, and usb -- the only thing it doesn't do for me is write to usb, makes the 8mb armax card us...

Ha! It's a good thing there's an edit feature: when I first read you're reply I hadn't noticed the mistake I'd made... guess I'm lucky you didn't see my first reply! And don't worry... I feel like a fool already. I have the impression I'm the only one who cannot compile ps2link out of CVS and get it...

mrbrown wrote:Can you try just "-lc -lkernel"? This is how it's supposed to work now.

That works fine, thank-you!

ooPo wrote:This thread is off topic. It has nothing to do with ps2client.

Doh! I edited...

I've been trying to resolve my toolchain / compilation issues for about a week and thought I had it (I probably do) but ran into an unexpected problem: the current ps2link from CVS will not compile. Simply changing the LDFLAGS in ee/Rules.make fixed the problem: -EE_LIBS += -lkernel -lc -lsyscall +E...

When loading the non-stripped ps2hdd.irx from host:, it fails when no command-line options are given. It works fine with "-n 4 -o 8". Load sequence: From mc0: - BOOT.ELF == LaunchElf v3.32 - PS2LINK v1.24 (binary dist) Then through ps2client-2.0.0: - optionally PS2LINK v1.30 - ps2atad.irx ...

I noticed that pratically every IRX file I could find was listed as "not stripped" when using the 'file' command. All the ps2sdk IRX I compiled were listed as "stripped". So I happily commented out "LDFLAGS+=-s" from all the Makefiles in the 'iop' tree. Guess what? The ...

EDIT: I've realized filesizes are a useless comparison, so I removed them. Next time I'll post md5 sums instead. Could someone post the compiled filesizes you get when compiling from CVS? Here's what I get using Makefile defaults (DEBUG=0, LOADHIGH=0, BUILTIN_IRXS=0): <<worthless filelist cut out i...

ooPo wrote:You should be able to pull whatever revision of a project you want from cvs by specifying its tag.

Doh! I wasn't using the correct tag name!

I cannot find the sources to ps2link-1.24 or PS2OS v0.3a, both of which work fine with my HDD (no longer in CVS). I've started diff'ing ps2sdk and it's 'ancestors' (ps2drv, libhdd) to figure what changed... So far: - ps2hdd / libhdd do not have significant changes. - ps2atad has changes to enable 48...

I see two quick-n-dirty ways that might work: -figuring how to use (if it's possible) the driver which must be on the ARMax disk. -somehow patching the existing mc driver like some people patch the ATAD.IRX But then they would be only personal solutions -- I couldn't really share them... I still hav...

I don't consider myself a coder... If I have a bunch of code in front of me that doesn't quite do I want, I can usually hack it up to my liking... I don't think I saw a (sdk) driver for MC access -- isn't rom0:MCMAN or rom0:MCSERV the MC drivers? So I'd basically have to rewrite those? I bought the ...

The HD is a 120GB Maxtor taken out of a usb-only OneTouch, and it is formatted...
I've been usng ps2menu, ps2os, and execftps to read/write the HD without problems -- those apps are actually installed on the HD and LaunchElf runs them from there.
ps2link is the only one I've had to install on the MC.

Is it at all possible to use a non-sony memory card with any of the homebrew software? (I've searched and not been able to find an answer.) I have an ARMax 8MB card which I paid good money for but is going to waste because I can't be bothered to load up the (uber-fragile-non-scratch-resistant) ARMax...

I'm trying to get ps2link to work with ps2hdd (from ps2sdk) and cannot get my CVS checkouts (from yesterday) to work. ps2link runs fine until I use ps2client to load the HDD IRXs. I found the post which gives the order of everything, but whether I follow it or not, ps2hdd always freezes at exactly t...