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Hi,
I have a couple of questions that I hope someone here could help me out with:
1) I assume that xbox/xbmc does not have support for XIMETA's NetDisk (NDAS) protocol?
2) Does anyone know if someone out there is trying to add NDAS support for the XBOX. Is this possible to do at all?
3) Is it possible to write custom device drivers for the xbox as things stand at the moment? If so does someone know how one would go about doing this, i.e. where can one get the DDK etc.
Regards,
Viktor Godaly
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Hi,
Ximeta has external hard drive cases with NDAS support. NDAS is different than NAS, each client needs to run a driver kind of software to access the NDAS storage disk. Ximeta engineers have posted the driver source code for linux.
Can this source code be ported to XBMC to support accessing Ximeta NDAS disks? This may be a great addition to networking capabilities of XBMC.
Thanks.
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pike
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seems like a stupid design, is it USB or Ethernet ?
And why don't you even include a link where I could findout about this myself ?
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I'm a major adversary to proprietary protocols as well; however...
In this case, it's a justified feature and the company has done a great job signing up partners, and delivering ubiquitous code.
You’re probably familiar with the inherent shortcomings of NAS and the overhead of IP file sharing. You have a few options, iSCSI being one. This is the poor-man’s iSCSI, and the beauty of it – it could be argued that it’s more secure than IP file sharing, it’s MUCH faster, it’s easier and has less overhead, and relevant to our discussion here: it’s got an amazing DVD/CD virtualization technology for media jukeboxes, which is absolutely huge.
I feel that before it’s dismissed, it would be worth reconsidering – or at least keeping it on a list for consideration/research, particularly since the source is available.
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virtualization is irrelevant to XBMC, which can already use disc image files without issue.
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I have an NDAS drive and I think it would be great if it were supported in XBMC.
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So what if it's fast? Any regular NAS with SMB is more than fast enough to serve up HD streams.
Why doesn't NDAS just add SMB support?
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I have a XIMETA Netdisk NDAS that I bought a few years ago and worked Ok with Windows Server 2003. I just tried to use it with Windows 7 64 bit and it indicates Offline when on network but Online if USB. I hate proprietary network protocols that are unresponsive to standard utilities.