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I am using a 2TB usb 2.0 drive, formated as one large fat32 drive. WiiMC WORKS, but sometimes after 1 hour of video watching, it crashes WiiMC… which auto reloads into HBC.

If I formated this drive as entirely NTFS would WiiMC magically work ?

I am looking at Libntfs here:
http://code.google.com/p/libntfs-wii/updates/list

or does libfat already have support incorporated into it for 2TB fat32 drives ?

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@rodries wrote:

@pallbearer wrote:

USB Logs:
FlashDrive => working
2.5HDD => not working

Your 2.5HDD log is strange. Try again please, be sure to switch off & on when unplug, to reset your device, and wait about 10 secs before press A to be sure your device is up & spininng

@unclenoriega wrote:

I’ve got a Western Digital MyBook Essential 3TB drive. If I open WiiMC with with it plugged in, WiiMC crashes (DSI Exception). The same goes for the usb test app. I’m not sure what the exact error is since it only stays up for a second. I’m happy to provide more info or try any suggestions.

Weird, try to reinstall ios58 (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/IOS58_Installer) then try to reinstall hbc to use that ios
Now try the usb test app

Question rodries, I am having issues with a Seagate STAY1000102 USB 3.0 1TB drive (get Exception (DSI) occurred!”and I want to follow your advice to reinstall ios58, then hbc (both WiiMC and HBC have been confirmed to be running ios58, but I thought I would reinstall anyways and try again). I also run D2x (ver 2.2 installer) to get “Block IOS Reload”. Would I need to reinstall D2x as well after the ios58 reinstall and HBC reinstall? I install D2x in slot 247 and 248 only. I don’t want to break the D2x update. What would you suggest ?

Thanks in advance,
lelton

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Hi All,

I understand that most of the usb drive compatibility for WiiMC comes out of libogc , but it seems all other Wii apps work well with zero crash problems on usb 3.0 , except WiiMC. Wondering if some genital encouragement/pressure could be put on the libogc team for usb 3.0 support, due to greater limitations now in being able to purchase new usb 2.0 drives. I would estimate that in about 6 months sourcing usb 2.0 drives will become very difficult, so… it might be a good idea that we address this issue sooner. Maybe a “switch” could be included within WiiMC , so adding usb 3.0 drive support, would not break traditional usb 2.0 drive use.

Respectfully,

lelton

p.s. My setup is running a Seagate STAY1000102 usb 3.0 1TB drive. It has it’s own power supply, most stable setup seems to be in turn the Wii on first, boot, then the drive afterwards. This method “reduces” crashes in WiiMC but does not eliminate entirely. Running over “SMB only” has zero WiiMC crashes. I will get a log_usb.txt , just my daughter rebooted the Wii after running the tests overnight, so it looks like I need to rerun the tests, overnight… and have a conversation with my daughter 🙂

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Hi Tantric,

Thanks for your help, by the way, your software is awesome and Kudos to you. I am starting to get into WiiXplorer now, just try to get SMB support working correctly (thinking of copying the smb.conf from Mplayer to the WiiXplorer directory), but that is another story.

Current configuration for WiiMC:
Homebrew 1.0.8 using IOS58 V 24.32
WiiMC 1.2.2 using IOS 58

Tried a regular Lacie usb 2.0 1TB drive, flawless

The issue though it somewhat intermittent, sometimes it will work for hours, other times it crashes WiiMC. The drive does have a green mode (Seagate) on it which I completely disabled, so that should not be the issue, but it is a usb 3.0 drive, which has me concerned. I assume WiiMC+ usage would have completely no difference.

Configurable USB Loader works well, All emulators work (fat32), Mighty Channels works but is slow on each game load, all other apps work.

Do you think I should run the usb drive tests and post the results ? It might be useful.

To add more to the mix, I have been watching a number of videos off the Seagate usb 3.0 drive over the past few hours and…. no crash, but it was doing lots of crashes earlier today. Does having Wifi enabled (but still viewing off the local drive) vs non-Wifi enabled (and viewing off the local drive) have any bearing on WiiMC’s operations ? That is the only thing I have adjusted between crashing and non-crashing.

Les

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Hi Folks,

I recently have modded a new blue Wii (purchased at Wallmart for $109) for a friend. I gave him a shopping list of a harddrive and sd card to buy as well at the local electronics store. The store clerk gave him a Seagate Expansion 1TB usb 3.0 (SSEAN1-572) drive instead of the requested Seagate Expansion 1TB usb 2.0 drive (9SC2A6-572).

Now iN WiiMC, when WiiMC is reading movies/TV shows off the harddrive, WiiMC is crashing. The drive is formated as Fat32 (and I am not going to change that for compatibility reasons with the rest of the apps). Should we just return this drive, complaining to the store about there mistake and downgrade to the usb 2.0 drive, or is there a patch out there to allow the Wii to work with a usb 3.0 drive with stability :geek: .

Nothing else seems to fail, Mplayer works fine, Mighty Channels seems to load games slowly… but works (one minutes load time per VC, Wiiware game). Nothing else seems to be crashing. The fellow will be using the Wii to read Movies/TV Shows from the hard drive only as he it taking it to his vacation property only (no internet or network).

It’s running d2x ver 2.2 installer to CIOS 248 and 247. I tried the d2x 3.1 installer but it still crashed WiiMC on the usb 3.0 drive.

Any ideas ?

Les

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Excellent program, forget VLC on the PC, go WIIMC. As well, those green checkmarks help keep track of what you have viewed. Tell me any other player that can do that. Way to go WiiMC!

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Hi Guys,

The solution was to go to Network and Sharing Center / Advanced Sharing Options and then:

Turn ON network discovery
Turn OFF password protected sharing

As well ensuring that the Security tab of the share in explorer had the group Everyone setup for Full Control

Les

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I would try going to Network and Sharing Center / Advanced Sharing / then:

Turn on Network Discovery
Turn off password protected sharing

You also need to setup the Security Tab under explorer to include Full Access to the group Everyone

This should fix your issue. Reply back if it does not.

Les

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Perfect !

Upgrade my Avast to 6.1.1091 and all is now fine. Wow, what a quick fix.

Thanks,
Les

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