PS3 Hard drive and music transfering ?'s

[haste]

Originally Posted by ps3andlovinit

that there is a current limitation of 205GB (not 250GB) on the partition size for the internal drive. If your installing Linux , the 10GB Linux partition will come out of that 205GB eaving you with 195Gb..hopefully a firmware update in the future will change it.

eh? the hard drive in my ps3 shows up as 235gb(250gb drive)...

i had to format my external to fat32 for the ps3 to recognize it through usb

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by haste

eh? the hard drive in my ps3 shows up as 235gb(250gb drive)...

i had to format my external to fat32 for the ps3 to recognize it through usb

My internal drive definitely formatted as only 205GB..there is also a review somewhere else that indicated the same thing was happening to them..

Maybe it's an issue with some drives and not others?

What is your model .. I have the Western Digital 250GB..

[haste]

Originally Posted by ps3andlovinit

What is your model .. I have the Western Digital 250GB..

Same, scorpio model. took it out of a simpletech external enclosure that i bought from best buy

[Shin-Ra]

Is it possible that haste formatted the drive while using a more recent version of System Software?

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Is it possible that haste formatted the drive while using a more recent version of System Software?

That is my first assumption as well.. See my post below..even if that's the case..something still isn't quite right..

[crackinhedz]

** How-To Guide to Upgrading Your Hard Drive **

[haste]

i just upgraded to the new drive about a week ago. you all are probably correct assuming the new firmware fixed this issue.

[dpomp]

another question. when i hook up my ipod via usb to my ps3, it doesn't find the music. anyone else have this problem? it says no available tracks. i thought the ipod was supposed to work with the ps3

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by haste

Same, scorpio model. took it out of a simpletech external enclosure that i bought from best buy

Well it is very weird for sure..the system info is now saying 232GB - and I have set aside 10GB for Linux as well. It used to say 195 or 205GB..I did two re-formats because I forgot to install Linux the first time..which is why I'm unsure which one system info was reporting.

I think one of the firmware updates since I upgraded may have fixed some kind of reporting error or now in fact has one..

The *really* weird thing is I went thru and calculated the disk space used/free from before and after the upgrades etc..and the 195/205GB size was actually correct given what it was reporting for free space. The new number of 232 GB's total space means we have used up over 95GB - a 50% increase since the upgrade..which is highly doubtful given all our music and photos etc have been stable since then..it took us 10 months to fill the 60GB and that included adding the 30GB or so of music as a first time shot..

Something ain't right .. just not sure where.