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I have set up my raspberry pi with raspbmc on it. It loads fine and everything works. I then try and play movies off of my external hard drive and it does not seem to be able to pick it up. I have the external hard drive plugged into a powered usb hub so it does not take any power supply off the raspberry pi. Does my external HDD need to be mounted before xbmc is able to pick it up? I have my external HDD plugged in before i turn on the rasbperry pi, does this effect it? Would i need to plug it in after i turn on the pi?
Thanks in advance
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Any filesystem needs to be mounted before it can be read, so the answer is yes.
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Openelec auto mounts my external hard drive, but when I go to add source, I can't find it. I see it on the video list, but I'm trying to add folders and stuff.
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USB storage devices will be auto mounted under /var/media/<partition label>, so look in your Root filesystem and navigate to /var/media and see if your "iHardDrive" is there.
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If you get a 'mounted' message appearing, then it should be there somewhere.
Using RaspBMC, I'd SSH in and issue a 'sudo mount' command to find what is mounted, and where.
In my experience, if the format of the drive is unusable, then it won't get mounted.
What format is it?
RaspBMC can handle ext, FAT, NTFS out-of-the-box
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Thanks for your replay,
I'm actually running openelec but i guess it's a similar scenario.
I ran the "mount" command and i got this:
o[b]penELEC:~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=189500k,nr_inodes=47375,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /flash type vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /storage type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop0 on / type squashfs (ro,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=76388k)
tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
I have no idea what the above really means... all i know is i have a usb hard drive connected and ofcourse the SD card running openelec?? - Any thoughts?
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As far as I can see, there is no usb disk mounted - all those records relate to things like the system filesystems and the SD Card ( /dev/mmcblk0p1 and /dev/mmcblk0p2 )
The fusectl line is there for the tool to mount NTFS filesystems, which is the closest you have.
When I have an external HDD mounted I get entries like:
/dev/sda2 on /media/500sata1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda3 on /media/500sata2 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sda1 on /media/ODD80MB type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,uhelper=udisks)
which cover the 3 types I mentioned previously
I think you now have to have recourse to the system log, and possibly debug entries, to gain information about what happens when the system 'sees' the usb disk. I'd expect to see some messages relating to it being made present, and possible attempts to mount.
I was going to suggest running 'sudo fdisk -l' , but that may not give anything if the external drive just isn't being seen (or it might show filesystem types on the disk.
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I have kodi on my firestick. I have been trying to get it to connect to my seagate 5tb external hard drive. It will not recognize it. I have looked in the external drive option as well as the root system under mnt, storage, sDard etc. But nothing. I have used my Xbox one and an Emerson tv as the medium between the firestick and my seagate. Can anyone help?
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What do you mean by ” the medium between the firestick and my Seagate”?
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