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[APPLE TV] Is it possible to enable USB storage access? - james341 - 2008-10-02
good day to you all
i want to install today in my appletv the xbmc and i want to ask if after the installaion i will be able to use my usb storage just like plug and play or i need to do somthing after the install
thanks
- davilla - 2008-10-02
james341 Wrote:good day to you all
i want to install today in my appletv the xbmc and i want to ask if after the installaion i will be able to use my usb storage just like plug and play or i need to do somthing after the install
thanks
By default, the AppleTV OS will refuse to recognize any USB device. There is a whitelist inside the mach_kernel that does this. There are AppleTV patches that patch around the whitelist. See http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Main_Page and their forums for more information.
There is a future plan to have atvusb-creator handle this mach_kernel patching to enable USB device support but I don't want to go there yet.
how to: point xbmc to my usb hdd - staka69 - 2008-10-05
I ran this command:
-bash-2.05b$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *37.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 34.0 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_Recovery 400.0 MB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS OSBoot 900.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Media 35.8 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: type name size identifier
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 GB disk1
1: Windows_NTFS 465.8 GB disk1s1
so, now how do I point xbmc to see the external drive/ /dev/disk1?
Thanks,
Mike
- davilla - 2008-10-05
staka69 Wrote:I ran this command:
-bash-2.05b$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *37.3 GB disk0
1: EFI 34.0 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_Recovery 400.0 MB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS OSBoot 900.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Media 35.8 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: type name size identifier
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 GB disk1
1: Windows_NTFS 465.8 GB disk1s1
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/USB
- turbinez - 2008-10-05
so will this method will i be able to put all my media on an EXT HD and connect it to ATV for use with XBMC? is it safe?
- davilla - 2008-10-05
turbinez Wrote:so will this method will i be able to put all my media on an EXT HD and connect it to ATV for use with XBMC? is it safe?
If you do the USB patch and have the required kext and frameworks, it looks just like an OSX box with USB storage.
As I've said before, questions about enabling USB storage are better answered on the the AppleTV specific forums at ;
http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://forum.awkwardtv.org/