I want to enable USB on my ATV that is running v2.3.

Thus far, I have been able to load ATVFiles, Boxee on my ATV. Last night I installed NitoTV (latest version) through SoftwareLauncher and then even installed Smart Installer.

I see Nito TV in the main menu of ATV but have no idea where to look for the USB drive connected.

SSH is not my thing but can do it given proper direction.

After running the smart installer you will need to reboot your AppleTV (nitoTV->Settings->Utilities->Reboot AppleTV)

after that any hd's mounted will show up in nitoTV->Files anything in your ~/Movies folder, and any USB volumes mounted will show up there.

In Nito menu if you go to "Files" you should be able to see your external drive, that's if the smart installer installed everything correctly.

see this

Let me know if you need more help

Zeljko

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Officially Unlocked 3G, Model MB489SO, 2.2 --> 2.2.1 --> 3.0 B4 --> 3.0 B5 --> 3.0 GM
Macbook Pro 15.4' Core 2 duo 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM
aTV 40GB, 2.0.2 (2.3.1 OTB),USB support, rTorrent, nitoTV, XBMC 9.04.1,
OpenSubtitles_OSD for XBMC and Plex
USSD for Mac

Everything did work fine, absolutely no errors once the Smart Installer finished.

The reason I doubt that it works is of course that I don't see my USB drive anywhere, and also fact that I don't see the USB drive when I run diskutil list command. (This is now solved, see #5)

My suspicions are following, help me alleviate plesase

1. It's a smaller drive that required separate power and data transfer USB. Since ATV only has one USB port, I use that for data transfer and I use the iPod USB charger to provide power to the drive. Anything wrong with this setup?
   
2. Is there a particular named folder I must create on USB drive?
   
3. Should I try another drive...? Will a 1 GB Flash drive work?

Ok - I think it was the format of my drive.. I reformatted to Mac OS and now it works.

Only Problem now I have is with the USB plugged in, when I reboot my ATV, I get lines of code that seem to be in the loop.... after I unplug the USB and reboot, it works fine.

Hi tDotTo,

is that the same USB that you used for ATV patchstick?
if yes , you need to repartition it in Disk Utility and format again.

there is a 200mb or so partition in front of everything else, it gets created by ATV patchstick.

Zeljko

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Officially Unlocked 3G, Model MB489SO, 2.2 --> 2.2.1 --> 3.0 B4 --> 3.0 B5 --> 3.0 GM
Macbook Pro 15.4' Core 2 duo 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM
aTV 40GB, 2.0.2 (2.3.1 OTB),USB support, rTorrent, nitoTV, XBMC 9.04.1,
OpenSubtitles_OSD for XBMC and Plex
USSD for Mac

you dont need to have that usb drive formatted in a specific fashion unless you are trying to boot from it. to have it to normally mount it doesnt need to be in any specific format, they will all work as long as you have the proper components installed.

I was referring to this:
I think he is talking about the same USB that he used with ATV patchstick, it works when inserted after the reboot but if rebooted with USB pluged in then it goes to "lines of code".

Zeljko

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Officially Unlocked 3G, Model MB489SO, 2.2 --> 2.2.1 --> 3.0 B4 --> 3.0 B5 --> 3.0 GM
Macbook Pro 15.4' Core 2 duo 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM
aTV 40GB, 2.0.2 (2.3.1 OTB),USB support, rTorrent, nitoTV, XBMC 9.04.1,
OpenSubtitles_OSD for XBMC and Plex
USSD for Mac