Any hard drive size limit on PS2 and other questions?

[vonfnas]

Hey!

I have an old FAT PS2.
It has a 250gb IDE hard drive installed which I run with HD Loader 0.8c.

Since I have been away from the PS2-scene for SOOOO long, has anything changed?
Is there any size limit to how big IDE hard drive you can use with the PS2?

Is there any better loader than HD Loader nowadays, or is it still the best one?

[Zorlon]

The biggest IDE you can get is a 750GB in general, not sure about a limit for the PS2 though, my PS2 is a slim now

Maybe a google on that would help, it might not just be a size limit but also a make and type limit, I know the xbox can only use certain IDE drives, though it can also use an IDE to SATA converter and be able to use even bigger drives (there are still limits to what SATA drives cab used also), myself I stuck with a 750GB IDE that was known to work, the PS2 Network port does not have room in there to fit a SATA converter though... maybe if it is a slim laptop drive but that is going to be hard to get that to fit aswell

The best loader, launches DVD's not HDD installed games, the launcher is ESR, that can be installed as a soft mod along with FMCB

A best HDD loader is Open PS2 Loader (OPL) that can load games from USB, network (SMB) & HDD, tons of fixes and tweaks used ect


http://www.sksapps.com/index.php?page=hd.html & http://psx-scene.com/forums/official...-loader-forum/ for OPL
http://www.sksapps.com/index.php?page=exploit.html & http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-esr-forums/ for ESR
http://www.sksapps.com/index.php?page=exploit.html & http://psx-scene.com/forums/official...c-boot-forums/ for FMCB

Any problem games would be best ran from either a network connection to a PC or via ESR if OPL has issues there, there is also no harm in having both HD Loader and OPL either, there could be some games that still run smoother via HD loader to OPL, but not very likely.

8C is still the last HDLoader though