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OK! Now I feel stupid :) The problem was pukklink all along. I just tried ps2link, and my problems have vanished. Billions of printfs in hdd.c and atad.c, and for what? :) Oh well, maybe now I can actually do something useful. I was thinking of doing some kind of mem card<->HDD<->usb drive savegame ...

Well, the apps I've tried that worked all seem to have the irx's linked into the elf. For example, pgen. Interestingly enough, the pre-built irx's and the example that comes with libhdd all fail to work in exactly the same way... Just for the heck of it, I'm going to try a different host on the ps2.

Tried that - no such luck, even setting UDMA2 locks up the ps2 at the "ata_hwport->r_command=command" line. I even tried skiping the mode setting altogether, but then the system locks up in the ata_io_finish() call from ata_device_smart_enable(). The drive is an IBM Deskstar 120GXP, so it ...

Ok.. I've been trying to debug a little bit. It seems the ps2 freezes up in the initialization of ps2hdd, specifically when ps2hdd.irx calles atadInit(). Is this a bios call? I couldn't find it in the sdk source via grep... UPDATE: I realized atadInit is just another name for an export from ps2atad....

Actually, I've already got the irx's embedded in my elf. I haven't seen anything in the posted code that is remarkably different from what I'm doing either... I wonder if this could be compiler related? Unless there's something I just keep missing that's supposed to be done before loading ps2hdd.irx...

Thanks, that helps a lot. But now I have a new problem :) I am loading irx's from ee memory, so I had to use the sbv_patches. Now, my program freezes immediately after loading ps2hdd.irx. The hard drive spins up, and the hard drive light comes on and stays on, but my program does not proceed to load...

That's odd... I'm having the same problem.. I also used the ps2menu method of loading the irx's, but my project still hangs at hddCheckPresent(). These are the IRX's I load, and the order in which I load them: poweroff.irx iomanX.irx fileXio.irx ps2dev9.irx ps2atad.irx ps2hdd.irx ps2fs.irx Did I lea...