RE: Original XBMC storage question

["Pauls Hotmail" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Des. That's my "Plan B" - I'll take my EeePC, the USB
disk, and a
X-over cable... - Just thought it would have been nice to cut out the extra
step in the middle, however early experiments are not looking promising, -
last night I decided to brave going up into the loft to plug a disk into an
Xbox, and absolutely nothing happened.... the disk was (is) formatted as
FAT32... neither the Dash's nor XBMC's filemanagers would see it...

Perhaps I need to load up the original Xbox dash and go into the memory
management bit?

Paul G.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Des Gibbons
Sent: 18 January 2010 12:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Original XBMC storage question

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 17 January 2010 14:11
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] Original XBMC storage question
>
> Chaps, - not in front of a handy xbox just now, so not able
> to just quickly "suck it & see"...
>
> I was wondering if an original XBOX running XBMC would work
> with a USB hard disk and be able to access it as an external
> storage device? - obviously I know that it can quite easily
> access & use a USB memory key, and I know that it
> automatically reformats it to FATX as soon as it's plugged in...
>
> I have a remote xbox out in the holiday home in Spain, with
> no network connection and no easy way to add/remove content
> to it.. I also have at least a couple of spare external USB
> disks (portable 2.5" ones that take power from the USB) and I

I have never used USB storage on the Xbox1 so can't help you on that.

But my solution to your problem is I fill a spare 2.5" usb drive with
"content" and then use the laptop and a network crossover cable
to update
the remote xbox the next time I am at it. Obviously if you don't have a
laptop/PC handy it doesn't work.

Cheers, Des.



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