NTFS USB support on Rebug 4.86

[Supadups]

Hi all, I finally decided to upgrade to Rebug 4.86. I am able to see my 32 GB NTFS Formatted drive in Irisman but unfortunately cannot see my 3 TB NTFS drive. I tried the multiman method of booting into CFW mode, installing PFS driver but that does not detect it either. Webman, prepISO and rebug toolbox is installed. Any suggestions on how to get the 3.0 TB NTFS drive detected?

 

[Berion]

MultiMAN doesn't installing anything. Just switching to another "driver" to mount NTFS mass storage devices (per instance, this option isn't remembering so after restart it back to default setting). And well, it is not perfect.

After load it, You should see in file manager "dev_pfs0/" and "dev_pfs1/". If You don't see them, something goes wrong.

 

[Coro]

check if it is MBR or GPT. ps3 can not read GPT.

 

[Sulfvr]

Hi all, I finally decided to upgrade to Rebug 4.86. I am able to see my 32 GB NTFS Formatted drive in Irisman but unfortunately cannot see my 3 TB NTFS drive. I tried the multiman method of booting into CFW mode, installing PFS driver but that does not detect it either. Webman, prepISO and rebug toolbox is installed. Any suggestions on how to get the 3.0 TB NTFS drive detected?

I don't think ps3 supports 3TB (not sure, never tried it).
Try dividing it, 1.5 NTFS and 1.5 fat32 (or 2:1).

 

[bguerville]

Use MBR partitions only.

Multiman is not the best choice for managing files on a ntfs partition. Its file manager uses a read-only driver (PFS) & certain USB drives aren't recognised properly (in which case you must use a USB.CFG file with the device's ID).
Even with a proper USB.CFG, some devices/partitions cannot be read by the mm file manager, I have never bothered looking for an explanation.
Anyway, generally speaking for ntfs, you are better off using Irisman or Managunz.

Regarding webMAN-MOD, sMan & other sprx based homebrew, there is an additional problem. The ntfs library used in those projects uses a cap on the maximum supported number of ntfs clusters for a single partition. When using big partitions (>1Tb), the default cluster size used by partitioning utilities usually create too many clusters for the ntfs library. The bigger the partition, the more likely the issue. There is an easy workaround though, you can increase the cluster size, any decent tool can do that on an existing partition.

 

[ItsmeAJ]

ps3 only sees mbr partition, but mbr's limit is 2tb per partition so ps3 can't read 3tb drive because it's obviously if pc reads 3tb mean the drive is fully formatted as gpt.