Accessing a USB hard drive attached to an Xbox 360?

[Feek]

Originally Posted by Burble

The enclosures that I've used with USB and ethernet have only allowed one connection to be used at a time. From memory the Icybox something-or-other shuts down the ethernet interface if the USB port is in use.

Is this the one? It looks like it supports both SATA and IDE drives with both ethernet and USB ports.

[Feek]

Originally Posted by leowyatt

To be honest the 360 is quite nice with the formats it will read. Mine reads my HFS+ drive perfectly. Plus I can have large files on there with no issues.

Leo, how did you format your external drive? I've accepted that I'm going to move my drive enclosure around so I formatted it in Leopard with Disk Utility in a 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' format, with the Partition Map Scheme set to GUID Partition Table.

I copied a load of video files to it then tried it on my 360 and it doesn't even recognise that there's a drive attacked so I suspect that I chose the wrong format/partition.

[leowyatt]

If you're on windows you need a program called MacDrive but on the mac I just formatted the drive using Disk Utility as you did.

On the 360 did it not show any USB devices?

[Feek]

Nope, it didn't even recognise there was a device connected. I may format it through windows using MacDrive, I've been doing some reading around and it appears that Disk Utility can be a bit hit and miss for it. Hopefully MacDrive will work through a VM.

[leowyatt]

You not got a windows machine you can use? I'll just connect my drive and tell you how I formatted it.

Feek make the drive Mac OS Extended don't journal it. That is how mine is formatted and works a treat.

[Chuckles]

Macs and PC's can both read FAT can't they?

[leowyatt]

Originally Posted by starscream

Macs and PC's can both read FAT can't they?

most likely yes. Why you ask?

[Feek]

Originally Posted by leowyatt

You not got a windows machine you can use? I'll just connect my drive and tell you how I formatted it.

Feek make the drive Mac OS Extended don't journal it. That is how mine is formatted and works a treat.

Not easily, at least not one with USB2 that will work at any kind of speed.

Originally Posted by starscream

Macs and PC's can both read FAT can't they?

Yes, but I don't particularly want a 2Gb limit on file sizes which I will get with FAT.

I'm already installing MacDrive into my VM but I'll try it as you suggest first Leo and if that doesn't work then I'll do it through the VM.

/edit - I'm going Mac OS Extended and MBR as the Partition Map Scheme (I figure a better chance of the 360 reading that rather than GUID)

[leowyatt]

I'm pretty sure the Mac Os Extended format will do fine for you Feek. I didn't do anything else myself and my drive has been fine. To be honest I haven't used macdrive to format any disks myself but I know other people who have.

Fingers crossed it's already done

[Feek]

Yay, that worked as extended but not journalled, thanks Leo

All the downloaded avi stuff plays but the files I converted from HD using that slow application won't play though so I'll have to try that new one you found via a VM and see how well it works.