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Hello, I am not sure if this the right forum for this as I suspect it is more of an OS question, but my GBD (brand new) box is not detecting my HFS+ formatted drive with all of my media on it. I've checked /mnt and /storage, nothing mounted there. The drive is detected elsewhere in the OS, but I cannot find a way to import it and its media without formatting it, which is something I do not want to do at this time. I appreciate any advice and/or thoughts on this. I am a Unix admin by trade, if that helps and I ran Linux for years at work and at home, obviously I run Macs at home now.
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You may have to use NTFS or ExFat, what does the info say your box supports?
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More info would be needed.
If this GBD is an AMLogic S912 - give up now and send the device back to the seller.
HFS+ support is the least of your worries, and your troubles are only just beginning.....
If it is a AML S905(x) run LibreELEC Kodi Krypton on it from a microSDHC card.
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I got to say, I always wondered: who were the marketing consultants who said calling your product/company GooBangDo was a good idea?
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If the pictures are anything to go by then that is one one of those fully loaded android boxes without saying its fully loaded.
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Thanks, folks. When I get home after slaving over servers all day, I'm not in the mood to mess around with this so I'm returning it. Looking for a plug and play media player that will mount my 4TB HFS+ USB drive and play my media with no extra work.
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Guess what that media player is called ?
- a Mac Mini running OSX/macOS
Welcome to Apple's HFS+ custom file system world. I seriously doubt you will find any Android box that is going to work with HFS+
Suggestion would be to try and plug that HFS+ drive into an Apple extreme router and share from that. It may work it may not.
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So does libreelec, just do it!
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