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This sounds incorrect. You need to set BDM Start Mode to Auto, and under the Block Devices menu you need HDD set to on. HDD Start Mode has NO affect on exfat drives and should be turned off.

What HDD adapter are you using? Is it a Sony one or 3rd party? Timeouts indicate communication errors, which likely explains why OPL is stuck loading the game list. Typically when this happens the adapter/drive gets put into an error state it can't recover from until you reboot.

Turn HDD Device Start Mode off, and under the Block Devices menu turn HDD on.

See this link for more information on the seachest tool and how to use it: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/how-to-convert-512e-to-4kn-using-fast-format-seagate-exos-x16-drive.84094/ You will want to change the last command they use "--setSectorSize" to set the drive to 512 sector...

The drive should support 512 byte sector emulation. There's a utility on the seagate website you can use to change the drive sector size to use 512 byte sectors. But you will need to connect it to your motherboard as almost no sata dock/adapter will passthrough the ATA commands required to...

This is the issue right here, the 3TB drive is set to use 4k sectors and not 512 byte sectors. You will need to set it back to 512 in order to use it with OPL.

HDD Device Start Mode is for APA formatted drives. If you're using exFAT turn BDM Device Start Mode to Auto, and under the Block Devices menu turn HDD on.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do since you didn't post the results of any of the speed tests. You don't select the UDMA mode in HDDTester, it will select the modes itself. If you just want to use UDMA 6 in OPL then just use the OPL_UDMA_PLUS.ELF file which will default to using the highest...

New build v1.2.0.6-1996 is available: https://github.com/grimdoomer/Open-PS2-Loader/releases/tag/v1.2.0.6-1996-Beta Change log: Fixed issues with changing themes reverting to default before being able to save changes Changed loading process for png artwork, png art files should load 2-3x...

This is a small utility I wrote that can be used to get drive info, run speed tests, and check for data transfer errors on internal HDDs. I used this mainly for running speed tests while testing UDMA 5/6 support. Here are a couple things you might use this tool for: Checking if your HDD's...

It will still work, you need to set HDD device start mode to either manual or auto.

Thanks for the crash reports! Do you have any other devices connected? And do you have any custom themes on any of the connected devices? Both issues appear to be memory corruption around the theme system. Not really surprising and I figured themes were going to be an issue at some point.

You only need hdd enabled if you want to use an APA formatted drive. You can turn it off and leave BDM mode set to auto, with the HDD block device enabled. It will auto load the hdd page on startup. That delay in the page loading is the hdd being recognized in the background. The original build...

I wasn't able to reproduce this crash using the steps you provided but using the crash info screen I was able to identify the issue. I uploaded a new build that I think will fix this: https://github.com/grimdoomer/Open-PS2-Loader/releases/tag/v1.2.0.5-1991-Beta Let me know if this build works...

I uploaded a new build that has some menu improvements but more importantly I have added a crash handler screen that I'm hoping will help me fix the crashes that people are experiencing. New version here: https://github.com/grimdoomer/Open-PS2-Loader/releases/tag/v1.2.0.4-1990-Beta Change log...