rebug 4.21 and multiple usb drives- help for those with black screen, kick back to xmb etc

hi all. i have successfully updated to rebug after briefly using rogero 4.21 as well as being a long time kmeaw 3.55 user.

I had been one of those guys getting black screens, errors, and kicked back to xmb after game launch. i thought nothing would work for me!

so what i've now learned after a painful period of trial and error, is that i can no longer keep both of my usb hard drives plugged in at the same time. on kmeaw, i previously had both hard drives connected through a powered hub, and the hub was plugged into the right most usb port.. on kmeaw i could run games from one or the other drive interchangeably and kept them both plugged in all the time

NOW i have to start the ps3 with ONLY one OR the other plugged in. this is right from a full power off. have to boot with only one or the other. when doing this games work great, i think every single game on either drive works BUT i just have to make sure that the correct drive is plugged in ie the one with the game i want to play

this is a pretty small price to pay to have most of the games working, but wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to have both drives connected and working at the same time? as well i wanted to post this on the off chance it could help others

lastly, if you have more than one usb drive connected and your setup is working great, could you please reply with your config? ie how are the drives connected, one in each port, using a hub, if so which port, etc

yikes over 200 reads but no one have any thoughts? no one else having trouble getting two external drives working simultaneously?

You can boot the PS3 without any USB's plugged in wait for XMB to load and then plug in more than one USB hard drive. so ive been told.

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Originally Posted by PatrickBatman

You can boot the PS3 without any USB's plugged in wait for XMB to load and then plug in more than one USB hard drive. so ive been told.

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hi thanks for the suggestion but did not work for me. maybe works for others.

The other option i heard is have one USB HD plugged with your games on it reboot and then plug in others. still though havent tried it.

When you have both USB HDDs connected, can you see both drives in multiMAN's File Manager?

hi there, tried booting up with one drive, then connecting the second. no go for me.

i can definitely see both drives in multiman, both in the games list (ie i see games that i know are on both drives) as well as seeing both drives in mm file manager (they show up as usb 006 and usb 007 for some reason)

I am in the same situation. I have two hard drives (1tb and 2tb) tooked into a usb powered hub. If I have both plugged in at any time I just get blackscreens. So far the only solution is to have only one plugged in at any time.

Well that is very strange that you can see both HDDs in multiman, but when you try to load a game, it fails.

Can you tell me what are your common game settings for each game?

Do you have Direct Boot on?
Do you have EXT GAME DATA on?

Some of the above settings should not always be on. I want to see which ones you have on. I am thinking you have EXT GAME DATA on. Which shouldn't be on. At least for this test. Because if it is on, it will cause your other HDDs to fail being seen in the XMB. Plus Direct Boot will almost always fail.

You also should do a rescan of all your games to make sure they are not just ghost images on multiMAN. Also make sure that your HDDs have the folder GAMES or GAMEZ on the root of each HDD and also the game IDs of your game titles are inside that folder.

Plus don't use the HUB, you should have at least two USB ports on your PS3. Use them directly without a hub.

As to the way multiMAN numbers them as USB# and etc, that is normal.

hi thanks for the response. i've been using bd mirror for most games, none have direct boot, and none have ext game data checked. done the rescan, same result. tried with the hub, as well as connecting the two drives directly into the two ports.

always get same result! after posting this, i've done more research and i think others have noticed the same result.