!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a beta release. Use at your own risk. The LBA48 code has not undergone rigorous testing. All other BIOS options and combinations of options have not been fully tested. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ***** LBA48 Warning ***** If you choose the partitioning option "Partition 6 Takes Rest of the Drive", and if your drive is greater than 137GB and has a partition 6, data corruption will result. Only use this option if you plan on reformatting partition 6. ********** ============================================================ Thanks -Paul Bartholomew for xbflash and LBA48 support. -Superfro for his original BIOS mods. -k3rn3l and MomDad for ideas, info and other support. -SantMat for his ultra-smooth no-animation, no-DVD-check, LED color patches, and more. -Team Phoenix for info and other support. -Pixel8 ============================================================ Extracts, Compiles, and Patches XBOX BIOS/Kernel Files. ============================================================ See XBtoolDoc.html for more info. ============================================================ LBA48 Notes (see XBtoolDoc.html) Please give all credit for the LBA48 stuff to oz_paulb. He's done what many said couldn't be done. See the documentation for more details on the LBA48 and partition options. Also check http://forums.xbox-scene.com/ for help. ============================================================ Fan Speed Notes I set the minimum to 10--which appears to be the default. The max speed in XBtool is 50. That appears to be somewhere around the maximum usable number, but if anyone can tell me definitively what the max speed is, I'd like to hear from you. Use with caution. I don't know if there are any issues with user selected speed settings. Turning it up may help cooling but if the Xbox automatically shifts up the speed when it gets hot (does it?) then that feature could become disabled. ============================================================ History Warning: major code changes. Use only if you can recover from a bad flash. 1.0.8b12 Patches changed. Always use the patches (in the "Patch Data" folder) which came in the archive with your version of XBtool. The same goes for the DLLs. Fixed LBA48 code (no, really, I did this time). Sorry, but it's hard to test this using my puny little 100GB drive. Fixed error reading LBA48 options. Miscellaneous XBpatch changes. 1.0.8b11 Fix: partiton table option was being reset to the default (< 137GB = 6 / > 137GB = 7). This only affected users with > 137GB drives set for one large partition 6. Fix: Fan speed might not get changed if LED color set to green. 1.0.8b10 Added fand speed control option. Made oz_paulb's kernel expansion independent of LBA48 code so that future patches can utilize the kernel expansion (the fan speed patch takes advantage of this). Redid the LED patch to use the kernel expansion. This build has been tested on every supported BIOS, but only BFM version. The LBA48 code has been sightly modified and not fully tested. 1.0.8b9 Added option to use the folder name when packing a BIOS. This behavior is similar to the way older versions of XBtool worked. It only applies to BIOS packing--not saving. Access this option through the menu (click the icon in the upper-left corner of the dialog). Made the output files size selection persistent. Added CleanRegistry app in the Config folder (for getting rid of XBtool's registry entries). 1.0.8b8 Added LBA48 patching for 4976.02. Fixed issue where LBA48 code might not get patched in under certain circumstances. This might happen, for instance, if a kernel patched with an unreleased version of Paul's LBA48 patch was loaded into XBtool. These kernels are now repaired automatically. Fixed new kernel ID code to recognize LBA48 patched kernels. Tweaks to the kernel ID engine. Minor display changes. 1.0.8b7 X scale patcher removed. There was an issue with the X scale patch which could cause some BIOSes to hang. May be added back later if anyone wants it. This has been a long standing issue, but no one reported it as a bug. I just happened to discover it while redoing the kernel ID engine. Since it could lead to a frag, I decided to do this release now rather than later. The kernel ID engine rewritten. It should be much more precise, but please report unrecognized or misrecognized kernels. Tested BFM versions of all BIOSes, but not fully tested with all possible options. 1.0.8b6 Paul Bartholomew's LBA48 and partition table patches. (Not fully tested) 4978.03 support added (dropped other two 4978 BIOSes, since they hang some machines). Fixed crash in general dash patching function. Changed the way colors are patched so rounding errors don't happen when the colors aren't changed. 1.0.8b5 4978 patcher should be fully functional now. Don't test it if you can't recover, but if you can I'd love to here some feed back. 1.0.8b4 Fixed a crashing bug in 4976 and 4977 dash name patchers. 1.0.8b3 Fixed 4978 patcher a bug that could allow patching with dash names which were too long (that would be very bad). More display bug fixes. 1.0.8b2 Miscellaneous display fixes. Fixed 4978 dash name patching (actually patches the embedded FTPd app). Removed x2 4976 support, which was broken anyway (4976.02 still supported, but will probably be dropped soon). 1.0.8b1 Major rewrite of the patch engine for the purpose of easier maintence and code sharing. Added experimental x2 4978 support. Miscellaneous changes to the front end code related to above changes. -NghtShd