Are we EVER going to get a working NTFS firmware??

[Claudeb]

As tittle says, beta is buggy.

Are you guys still working on it or is development dead on this unit.:mad:

[BadIntentions]

I dont speak for patriot, but probably not. The unit itself was developed by a third party. There are many similar re-branded units, and NONE have NTFS firmware at all, let alone a working one.

[crackedatom]

yeah, I agree. Patriot is the only one that I've seen that offers NTFS.
It'd be nice if someone released ext2/3, but I don't ever see that happening.

[BadIntentions]

yeah, I agree. Patriot is the only one that I've seen that offers NTFS.
It'd be nice if someone released ext2/3, but I don't ever see that happening.

Not going to happen. In an earlier post I show what i found when i split one open and accessed its diagnostics terminal. It doesnt run Linux, but instead a proprietary operating system that appears to be closed source. With only 512kb of room for the whole os on the device, I somehow doubt the ODM/Vendor will add support for just about anything else at this point.

[daparix]

I would have loved to read this BEFORE purchasing the unit. FAT32 is nice, but definitively not to share my HD movies and play them on my PS3.

I wonder if at least they can share HW specs of this plug so we can try to make EXT2 run.

[BadIntentions]

I would have loved to read this BEFORE purchasing the unit. FAT32 is nice, but definitively not to share my HD movies and play them on my PS3.

I wonder if at least they can share HW specs of this plug so we can try to make EXT2 run.

I have reverse engineered the full hardware specs, from top to bottom. The CPU is an RDC x86 compatible SOC (i have the spec sheet and whitesheets for it), the flash chip is a standard 512kb arrangement, serial port is available, etc. The problem is, there is not enough flash to store linux, the bootloader is proprietary, and the OS it runs is actually completely custom and unique to products developed by the ODM. There is no way for us to properly extend it. You can flash other compatible firmware onto it though...

[DesmondBean]

NTFS 3.2 beta seems to work for me for read and write after superficial testing (on 250 GB disk). However it doesn't seem to support GPT volumes for disks over 2 TB, such as a raid box I have that looks like a 6 TB disk. Any possibility of this in later revisions ???

[BadIntentions]

NTFS 3.2 beta seems to work for me for read and write after superficial testing (on 250 GB disk). However it doesn't seem to support GPT volumes for disks over 2 TB, such as a raid box I have that looks like a 6 TB disk. Any possibility of this in later revisions ???

Rather unlikely. The CPU inside the GearBox and other RDC MCU based devices is completely inadequate for working with that much data. They don't even have enough ram to load a large GPT table...