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Enabling USB on AppleTV 2.3.1
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I didnt but I'm not sure if it harms anything.
There are tons of wiki's out there that detail this process pretty well. You should seek them out
There are tons of wiki's out there that detail this process pretty well. You should seek them out
Dear Kenny (keen)
4) make sure the HDD is formatted. WHAT FORMAT STEP BY STEP
HFS+ use macdrive on pc or just format on a mac
5) Restart the appletv and when the movie plays plug the HDD in. Should I be seeing something at this point
nope, just the flickering of your hdd
6) I'm doing this in windows but commands are the same in terminal; Terminal on the computer, How does the computer affect the apple tv do i hook the hdd back up to the computer?
just type them in terminal once you've completed step 5.
let me know if you need more help. Give me step by step details of what you have done though!
4) make sure the HDD is formatted. WHAT FORMAT STEP BY STEP
HFS+ use macdrive on pc or just format on a mac
5) Restart the appletv and when the movie plays plug the HDD in. Should I be seeing something at this point
nope, just the flickering of your hdd
6) I'm doing this in windows but commands are the same in terminal; Terminal on the computer, How does the computer affect the apple tv do i hook the hdd back up to the computer?
just type them in terminal once you've completed step 5.
let me know if you need more help. Give me step by step details of what you have done though!
Mind you all, you might get this error because you are trying to add folder permissions to an external drive (typically which are already) formatted FAT32, which does not know how to add settings like chown changes. At least this is what I think. So the next best thing is what was suggested in the last few posts, to format the drive as HFS+ because HFS+ will like having chown frontrow:frontrow being set on the files.
Just a thought
I was actually getting this error on a HFS drive. It seems to be something to do with Timemachine putting hidden files on the drive. I formatted it FAT32 and it worked fine but the problem is alot of my movies are mutligig files that wont work .
Here's what I did..
while in terminal logged into ssh in the appletv use the diskutil command line tool
diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ UntitledHFS /Volumes/SomeDisk
UntitiledHFS is the new volume name
SomeDisk is the current volume
That worked great from me and after that i went back into ssh (frugi which is graphical frontend) and double checked the new volume to make sure it was 100% free of files.
Zack
Here's what I did..
while in terminal logged into ssh in the appletv use the diskutil command line tool
diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ UntitledHFS /Volumes/SomeDisk
UntitiledHFS is the new volume name
SomeDisk is the current volume
That worked great from me and after that i went back into ssh (frugi which is graphical frontend) and double checked the new volume to make sure it was 100% free of files.
Zack
hello everyone, Im a total noob to all this and I would like to add my 250gb WD external. My atv has software 2.0, I created the patch stick and installed with no problem, I just dont get the terminal part, do I copy all those comands into a paragraph or do I type them in one by one pressing enter after each one? Thanks in advance.
So i know this thread is a little old... but i was able to successfully automount and recognize my maxtor one touch mini 250gb and what not. It all works great EXCEPT for the fact that there is a noticeable amount of lag especially when watching videos. i understand that because it is going over usb the data might be slower but is this normal for you? even after watching 5 minutes of video there is about a 5 second delay every 30 seconds or so.
Please tell me if there is a way to fix it, and if this is normal, id like to know how to reverse the commands used to make my original atv hard drive used as its primary once again. Thanks.
PS id like to add that as a 2.5" hard drive, it requires two usb ports for power as well, although i only plugged one in the hard drive still mounted correctly, could this cause an issue if it is being under powered? and if so i could use a usb wall charger for the other usb port possibly. Please tell me what could work. Thanks again.
Please tell me if there is a way to fix it, and if this is normal, id like to know how to reverse the commands used to make my original atv hard drive used as its primary once again. Thanks.
PS id like to add that as a 2.5" hard drive, it requires two usb ports for power as well, although i only plugged one in the hard drive still mounted correctly, could this cause an issue if it is being under powered? and if so i could use a usb wall charger for the other usb port possibly. Please tell me what could work. Thanks again.
Ok, I installed boxee, nitoTV, XBMC, ive also updated the software and set NitoTV to the smart install. I reformatted my external 500gb drive in HFS+ (466gb's).
When I type the commands into putty, it doesnt seem to recognize the drive via usb.
Im not sure what Im doing wrong. I tried typing line by line like the format you posted it in, and also as one long paragraph, but then I get "Unexpected argument sudo; leaving defaults unchanged."
Im hoping that when this is done, my itunes will show an apple tv with 466gb's and sync everything automatically. Can someone help me?
I'd like to know the answer to this as well before I go through all this trouble. Any additional information would be helpful as to the AppleTV seeing the hard drive as it's own internal drive. May as well provide the "complete" solution here.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Tried that just now. Putty doesnt respond to my commands
Im using Windows XP.
I just tried to reinstall the NitoTV smart install, and after the "It's Thinking" screencap, it has a list of actions done. the last couple say that it couldnt find the frontrow patch thing. perhaps this is my issue to begin with.
First off, my First post.
THANKS to all the guys who post solutions like this on here, Apple TV is now the device I always wanted it to be.
However, Im keen to get the new 3.0 update, and wondered if after enabling the USB, and making the ATV to look at my external drive, would the update kill it? Or am I going to have to re-patchstick, and then transfer everything over again?
THANKS to all the guys who post solutions like this on here, Apple TV is now the device I always wanted it to be.
However, Im keen to get the new 3.0 update, and wondered if after enabling the USB, and making the ATV to look at my external drive, would the update kill it? Or am I going to have to re-patchstick, and then transfer everything over again?