question bout fat32

**Peppers** · 01-04-2009,02:30 PM

Can I format a 500gb external HDD in fat32 and still take full advantage of the disk space for use in the ps2?

What is the largest hdd that can be taken full advantage of?

**amp2006** · 01-04-2009,02:43 PM

its up to 2TB and HDL can handle 256 games ..

Edited :wrong answer thought it was about HDL .. lol

and i have heard that they can use it for watching Movies or Music etc ..

**Peppers** · 01-04-2009,02:52 PM

Originally Posted by amp2006

and i have heard that they can use it for watching Movies or Music etc ..

Thats the idea. but still need info

**dlanor** · 01-04-2009,04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Peppers

Can I format a 500gb external HDD in fat32 and still take full advantage of the disk space for use in the ps2?

Yes, you can. The primary uses are to store media files for SMS, and installed PS2 games for USBAdvance/USBExtreme, but other uses include storage of emulators with rom file collections, and just about any other file storage needs you might have.

What is the largest hdd that can be taken full advantage of?

Apparently the limit for FAT32 is 2 TB, and since that is the filesystem we have to use on USB devices, there is currently no workaround for larger drives. But a future driver enhancement is in the works that should allow such drives to be split into several partitions. But the current drivers can only use one partition per device.

Best regards: dlanor

**Peppers** · 01-04-2009,08:59 PM

Great, thank you for that information.

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