PS3 [Troubleshooting] 4.90 Evilnat with WebMon 1.47 can't recognize 4TB NTFS USB hdd

[LouLou Delulu]

Hello, I'm a complete noob, and I received a CFW PS3 from a friend with a 2TB drive in it.
The PS3 has already a couple of roms on it, and they all work fine.

I would like to transfer PS1, PS2, and PS3 ISOs from my PC to the PS3 drive.

I formatted my USB HDD to NTFS (that's what I saw from a quick Google search was recomended) put the the ROMS on it, and connected it to the USB ports on the PS3 (I tried both ports) I enter WebMon>files, and I don't see the drive.

Anything I'm doing wrong?
Suggestions are welcome.

Should WebMon, sorry

 

[Glasvegas]

You should download irisman, i'm on hen so im not sure about ps1/2 but it shows ntfs drives and its very simple to copy over ps3 games

 

[LouLou Delulu]

You should download irisman, i'm on hen so im not sure about ps1/2 but it shows ntfs drives and its very simple to copy over ps3 games

Thanks, so I will summarize better what I tried and what was the result:

- According to the wiki [https://consolemods.org/wiki/PS3:Using_an_NTFS_External_Hard_Drive] , Multiman can handle NTFS. I tried connecting the drive, switching to MMCM mode, using PFS driver.
The drive wasn't detected.
I created a USB.CFG file. When I tried to upload the CFG file to the multiman folder, my flash drive wasn't detected either.

I did some digging, and I found the flash drive should have a FAT32 with an MBR. I downloaded Rufus, and made the drive bootable, then it was detected by the PS3. I loaded the CFG.

I connected my NTFS HDD, turned the PFS driver on, and now I got a "usb_hdd0" in the file explorer, but when I try to open it, it stops responding, like it's not really there.

I tried connecting the drive back to my PC and make a 2TB FAT32 partition with an MBR on it, thinking it might finally fix this issue like it did for the flash drive, but no.
The drive still shows when I was the PFS driver, and still stops responding when I click on it.

Any other tips?

Much appreciated.

 

[LouLou Delulu]

I have now formatted back to NTFS, 4TB.
I tried creating a folder named "GAMEZ" in the root of the drive and put the ISOs there, got nowhere.

Previously my folders were
PSXISO,
PS2ISO,
PS3ISO

in the root folder and it also didn't affect anything.

 

[aldostools]

I have now formatted back to NTFS, 4TB.
I tried creating a folder named "GAMEZ" in the root of the drive and put the ISOs there, got nowhere.

Previously my folders were
PSXISO,
PS2ISO,
PS3ISO

in the root folder and it also didn't affect anything.

GAMES and GAMEZ are the folders for games with extracted folders. They don't work on NTFS.

The ISOs need to be placed in their respective folders PS3ISO, PSXISO, PS2ISO, PSPISO.

Try increasing the cluster size of your NTFS disk. By default the cluster size is 4KB. It can be increasted up to 2MB. Generally 32KB or 64KB helps.

Another option is to make 2 partitions of 2TB with MBR partition table. One in NTFS and the other in FAT32 is a common setup.

To speedup your tests, create small dummy ISO files of few kilobytes before copy all your games.

 

[atreyu187]

These seems to be issues with some drives over 2tb. I have a few systems that work well but the same drive refuses to work with others. Finally got tired of it all and setup a NAS storage for all my systems. Aldos ps3netserv sees all 16+tb I have my files on.

 

[LouLou Delulu]

These seems to be issues with some drives over 2tb. I have a few systems that work well but the same drive refuses to work with others. Finally got tired of it all and setup a NAS storage for all my systems. Aldos ps3netserv sees all 16+tb I have my files on.

Yes, I switched to 1TB drive and now it works fine.
In the long run I will try the NAS approach with the network connection as well.