Hello everyone,
For a few weeks now I have been facing a very difficult problem:
My games that I downloaded onto my SSD aren't showing up at all in OPL.
I formatted the drive several times: I tried using both GPT and MBR, I used 32kb cluster size, I formatted the drive to exFAT, I used proper names for the ISOs, and proper directory to the DVD and CD folders.
I did make progress however, when I used another thread with the same problem: I changed two settings, I turned off HDD and set BDM to auto. After doing this, the games finally showed up in OPL, so I saved the settings and turned off the console for later use. But for some reason, when I went to go play the games from the SSD, the same problem occurred again even with HDD off and BDM set to auto.
I checked the SSD on my PC to see if OPL overwrote the DVD file I made with the games to an empty one, but rather all that was changed to that folder is that a .BIN file was added, and all the other OPL folders (APPS, ART, etc..) were added to the drive.
Now i'm painfully testing all the OPL beta versions on my console with the SSD in question.
I don't know for sure yet, but I think that the SSD uses the improper 4k sectors, which could be an obvious problem, but this doesn't explain how I was able to see the games from OPL that one time like I mentioned, and I have three of these same SSDs, one of which I was using for a while with HDL/OPL on the PS2 formatted to the PS2 file system without an issue. I'm in the process of confirming the sector size.
Now this is what I'm doing while waiting for thread responses:
-Checking all grimdoomer beta OPL versions
-Going to try deleting the .bin file in the DVD folder, and maybe all the other OPL folders that OPL created so that the drive is the same as it was when I got it to work.
-Going to try checking the sector size of the drive and reformatting the drive to 512e sector size if it does have a 4k sector size.
Specifications:
Network/HDD adapter:
GameStar Network Adapter - SSPH-10350
Homebrew boot method:
FreeMCBoot - Version 1.966
SSD Model:
inland PROFESSIONAL Solid State Drive - 509430
SSD Format Specifications:
Partition Table: MBR (previously tried GPT)
Format: exFAT
Drive size: 256gb
Cluster Size: 32kb
Sector Size: Likely to be 4k, still trying to find out.
PlayStation 2 Model Number:
SCPH-39001
PC Operating System being used:
Linux Mint - Mate Edition
Any help or suggestions are appreciated and will be tested.
Thanks.
For a few weeks now I have been facing a very difficult problem:
My games that I downloaded onto my SSD aren't showing up at all in OPL.
I formatted the drive several times: I tried using both GPT and MBR, I used 32kb cluster size, I formatted the drive to exFAT, I used proper names for the ISOs, and proper directory to the DVD and CD folders.
I did make progress however, when I used another thread with the same problem: I changed two settings, I turned off HDD and set BDM to auto. After doing this, the games finally showed up in OPL, so I saved the settings and turned off the console for later use. But for some reason, when I went to go play the games from the SSD, the same problem occurred again even with HDD off and BDM set to auto.
I checked the SSD on my PC to see if OPL overwrote the DVD file I made with the games to an empty one, but rather all that was changed to that folder is that a .BIN file was added, and all the other OPL folders (APPS, ART, etc..) were added to the drive.
Now i'm painfully testing all the OPL beta versions on my console with the SSD in question.
I don't know for sure yet, but I think that the SSD uses the improper 4k sectors, which could be an obvious problem, but this doesn't explain how I was able to see the games from OPL that one time like I mentioned, and I have three of these same SSDs, one of which I was using for a while with HDL/OPL on the PS2 formatted to the PS2 file system without an issue. I'm in the process of confirming the sector size.
Now this is what I'm doing while waiting for thread responses:
-Checking all grimdoomer beta OPL versions
-Going to try deleting the .bin file in the DVD folder, and maybe all the other OPL folders that OPL created so that the drive is the same as it was when I got it to work.
-Going to try checking the sector size of the drive and reformatting the drive to 512e sector size if it does have a 4k sector size.
Specifications:
Network/HDD adapter:
GameStar Network Adapter - SSPH-10350
Homebrew boot method:
FreeMCBoot - Version 1.966
SSD Model:
inland PROFESSIONAL Solid State Drive - 509430
SSD Format Specifications:
Partition Table: MBR (previously tried GPT)
Format: exFAT
Drive size: 256gb
Cluster Size: 32kb
Sector Size: Likely to be 4k, still trying to find out.
PlayStation 2 Model Number:
SCPH-39001
PC Operating System being used:
Linux Mint - Mate Edition
Any help or suggestions are appreciated and will be tested.
Thanks.
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