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Crashes (Airport extreme + external hdd) - snowballtwo - 2012-05-04 17:14
Hi!
I have my media on a hdd connected to a Airport Extreme, streaming via WiFi.
When I start XBMC it scans my movie and TV-shows folders, but often when I'm starting a movie it reboot the atv. When I then start XBMC again it works flawless.
The samething happends when I pause a movie, it reboots on start up. I think it could have something to do with the hdd going to sleep and is a little slow wakeing up.
Is there anyone who knows what to do to fix this problem? Can XBMC somehow always wake my hdd? Or is it something else?
Thank you for your time,
Snowballtwo
RE: Crashes (Airport extreme + external hdd) - DLeavy - 2012-05-04 17:35
There's a few threads on this issue. Take a read at one here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123622&page=5&highlight=airport
This falls under the "known issue" list. Someone did find a program that they used to keep there HDD spinning as a workaround.
RE: Crashes (Airport extreme + external hdd) - snowballtwo - 2012-05-04 17:48
(2012-05-04 17:35)DLeavy Wrote: There's a few threads on this issue. Take a read at one here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123622&page=5&highlight=airport
This falls under the "known issue" list. Someone did find a program that they used to keep there HDD spinning as a workaround.
Thanks you for your quick response! I'll have a look at the other thread.
RE: Crashes (Airport extreme + external hdd) - Marcellomr - 2012-08-27 01:03
(2012-05-04 17:14)snowballtwo Wrote: Hi!
I have my media on a hdd connected to a Airport Extreme, streaming via WiFi.
When I start XBMC it scans my movie and TV-shows folders, but often when I'm starting a movie it reboot the atv. When I then start XBMC again it works flawless.
The samething happends when I pause a movie, it reboots on start up. I think it could have something to do with the hdd going to sleep and is a little slow wakeing up.
Is there anyone who knows what to do to fix this problem? Can XBMC somehow always wake my hdd? Or is it something else?
Thank you for your time,
Snowballtwo
Snowballtwo,
I know it doesnt belong to this thread, but How did you manage to connect your HDD on AE? Via SMB or AFP?
I am trying both with no success
Thanks a lot
RE: Crashes (Airport extreme + external hdd) - snowballtwo - 2012-09-03 20:43
(2012-08-27 01:03)Marcellomr Wrote: Snowballtwo,Hi!
I know it doesnt belong to this thread, but How did you manage to connect your HDD on AE? Via SMB or AFP?
I am trying both with no success
Thanks a lot
It's connected via AFP. Use the Zero conf-alternative, that worked for me!
Sorry for the late answer.
RE: Crashes (Airport extreme + external hdd) - variable42 - 2012-09-17 18:50
(2012-05-04 17:14)snowballtwo Wrote: Is there anyone who knows what to do to fix this problem? Can XBMC somehow always wake my hdd? Or is it something else?
The problem is in the code library XBMC uses to connect to AFP shares. Luckily:
1. The code library XBMC uses to connect to Samba shares does not have this problem
2. The AirPort Extreme exposes shared drives using both AFP and Samba
Thus, you can resolve the problem by connecting to your drive using Samba instead of AFP.