PS2 Differences between WinHiip 48bit and wLaunchELF Formatting for PS2 SSD

[free1616]

Hey everyone,

I own a PlayStation 2 FAT SCPH 50004 and recently installed a Kaico Network Adapter to connect a "WD Blue SA510 WDS100T3B0A SSD, 1TB SSD SATA 6 Gbps, 2.5-inch, internal."

I'm in the process of formatting the SSD and wondering what the difference is between formatting with WinHiip 48bit and wLaunchELF v4.43a. After formatting the SSD with wLaunchELF and reconnecting it to my PC, it showed up as Toxic OS format when checked with WinHiip.

My question is, which option should I go with:

1. Format SSD with WinHiip 48bit or
2. Format SSD with wLaunchELF v4.43a (ToxicOS)

Is ToxicOS better than 48bit?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[free1616]

I formatted the SSD with the "PFS BatchKit Manager v1.1.8" tool. I chose 2560 MB as partition size because my SSD size is larger than 500gb and created the +OPL folder, then connected the drive to the console and started OPL once.
Then I connected the hard drive back to my laptop and transferred the PS2 games and the associated ARTs using the tool.
Everything went great!

 

[Berion]

WinHIIP don't support properly large drives. So his formatting is crippled and supporting such already formatted drives is crippled too (he will break it if You eg. install game). Never use it. Valid, ordinary APA has been wrongly recognized as APAEXT.

If You want to know more about APA, read this (just second tab titled "Logical Structure", other are not related to Your case):
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/the-future-of-the-playstation-2-internal-hard-drive.40830/

 

[free1616]

Hey Berion,

but the procedure is correct, right? I read the script but didn't really understand it.
I start the games via OPL 1.1.0. VMC etc. also works without any problems. More shouldn't be necessary in my case.
Thanks for your reply!