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[Guest]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to know what are the limitations of a PS2 File System :

- Max HDD Capacity supportes
- Max number of directories
- Max number of files / directory
- Max size of a file
- Max size of a partition

How does it work ?

Is there any PC tool to manage it directly ?

Thank you

Funkyman

[Guest]

In the CVS, in the archived section, an old version of libhdd has some pdf documentation that explains all that.

Max HDD depends really on the current software and drivers you use. Stock sony ps2 drivers seem limited to 120GB but homebrew stuff can now go over that.

Anyone know if that PDF doc is linked somewhere else on this site ? The info is valuable enough I think to have someplace otther than that old dusty area of cvs. :)

[Guest]

thank you gorim,

I found it :

http://cvs.ps2dev.org/archive/libhdd/doc/libhdd_ref.pdf

And I agree it deserves a better place.

very interesting for me as I'm a technical trainer in the windows / linux area and I have to deal with various filesystems.

Anyway, it seems that there is no limitation on the number of files / directory.
And I can't figure out why the ps2 locks when I tranfer roms in my PGEN sub-directory. Every 18-20 files it locks. I start over and it's OK. But after transfering more files, I have error messages "directory too small" ???

PGEN partition was created using DMS HDDFormat and has at least 450 MB free ?!?!? I'm getting mad ;))

Do you think I'm using an obsolete hdd driver ?

I know this forum is not the place to discuss about PGEN and stuff like that but the others PS2 forums are so "user" oriented, I can't find any explanation

Ciao

Funkyman

[Drakonite]

The program you are using has an old version of libhdd.
There was a bug that cropped up when copying numerous files into the same directory. It's fixed in the current hdd drivers.
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[Guest]

Drakonite,

I will replace my old files.

Funkyman