expand mp3 partion to 4 gb it only see 1018mb.......

[lee99]

i expand mp3 partion to 4000 mb it only shows 1018 mb in ps2mp3player...
what do i have to do to use above 1018mb?

[Stefy2]

i have also the same problem but it shows 1018 but not only in ps2mp3: also in ps2os, dms hdd format ect, i don't know why this happen

[Dink]

actually when i type in 4000 it makes it 3968

but if you go anything beyond 4000, like 4001, it will make it at 1018


for some reason i cannot make a partition greater than 4000

the drive was formatted with winHIIp, and i was using DMS to make new partitions

[lee99]

the weird thing is that when i boot up hdloader it says 6 gb left after the i expand(+MP3) it ,it shows 2 gb left but in ps2mp3player it shows only 1018mb.......
where is the rest than?

oke i will try it again, 4000 mb ........using dms format tool again.....
maybe i did something wrong ....3968mb is better than 1018mb........

[lee99]

oke it works now........
my size went from 1018 to 3968mb..........its a start...


maybe you have to calculate before entering your wanted size,
but how i don't know...that what i think

try this type in dms format tool expand size 15872
and reply what it does....
i cant do it because i only have 2 gb left on my harddrive.

[Stefy2]

and this simple problem bring me to low level format my hd
anyway for the 6gig partition it brought me a 2gb free partition not a 1gb free partition also in ps2mp3.
anyway i think there should be some sort of bug somewhere in libhdd because these gb are used not error in report

[Iron-B]

For some strange reason if you rezise the partition above 4Gb, for example 5Gb only apears 1018 MB in the ps2mp3, and if you check the size of the partition with dms hddformat after you rezise the partition it says 1018 MB free and 4096MB used or occuped ¿ This is the same or similar bug with for example older versions of winhiip for example 1.63 when you put a game above 4 Gb?

[dlanor]

This kind of problem is typical for software that uses 'too small' variables to handle integer arithmetic.

2G is the maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer.
4G is the maximum value of an unsigned 32-bit integer.

Even if the ELF files have been patched with internal IRX drivers that use 48-bit LBA, rather than the older 28-bit LBA which most of these tools were designed for, that doesn't fix all variable usage in the main programs. Such variables will in many cases be limited to 32 bits, thus resulting in errors for values beyond 2GB (signed) or 4GB (unsigned).

No simple patch can fix all such issues completely. That would require access to the source code, to allow recompilation of these tools with redefined variables.

Best regards: dlanor

[yahooadam]

pitty dms isnt 48 bit