I am new to LibreELEC
Running on Raspberry Pi 2b+
Using an external HDD but can’t access any of the files
The drive is a Western Digital WD3200AWS formatted in NTFS
External HDD not reading
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Crazyblocks Technologies -
October 15, 2018 at 2:02 PM -
Thread is Unresolved
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How are you trying to access the files? through the kodi interface? root/media/usb? or some other way?
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Is the drive detected ?
In Kodi - Go to System / System Info / Storage - it should be on that list (xxxxxUSB)
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So what path? through the kodi interface, over the network from a windows pc?
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It's difficult to see from that what exactly you are doing.
click on pictures, you should see the usb device, then add pictures, & browse to your pictures folder.
for movies, go down to videos, + videos, then browse to your usb,, root/media/usb then select type of content, ie movies, & let it scan, then in the main windows click on Movies to see the movies scanned into your library
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How is the hard drive being powered ?
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How is the hard drive being powered ?
12v power supply
It's difficult to see from that what exactly you are doing.
click on pictures, you should see the usb device, then add pictures, & browse to your pictures folder.
for movies, go down to videos, + videos, then browse to your usb,, root/media/usb then select type of content, ie movies, & let it scan, then in the main windows click on Movies to see the movies scanned into your library
I will try that soon
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It probably doesn't get enough power over USB. Every detected device will be visible on the /dev folder (like sda, sdb... use SSH login to see it). If it doesn't appears in that folder, then it's definitely an USB power issue.
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It probably doesn't get enough power over USB. Every detected device will be visible on the /dev folder (like sda, sdb... use SSH login to see it). If it doesn't appears in that folder, then it's definitely an USB power issue.
Except it's not a usb-powered drive.
First thing I'd do is to plug it into a windows pc and run chkdsk. If that doesn't fix it it's time to start looking at logs.
FWIW the only problems I've ever had with openelec / libreelec and ntfs drives have been when they've either not been ejected properly or they've been used on a win10 machine with fast startup enabled. Chkdsk has always fixed it for me.
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"Spins up" and "has enough power to be used" are two entirely different things.
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"Spins up" and "has enough power to be used" are two entirely different things.
True. I currently have an HDD, which spins up, but will not be detected anymore by my Ubuntu Linux. Spinning and using are two different levels of energy requirement.
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Charged the battery last night and it is back up to 13.8v, booted the pi again into raspbian and reconnected the drive and got this error
(The photo might show up twice in this post, I have a slow connection inside my school)
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And have you run chkdsk?
