Just wanted to say thx for this fix - still working well 
Took a long time to find this workaround - so just adding my thanks, and letting y'all know it's alive and kicking.
I have a brand new install of OpenELEC on Pi2 with an external USB HDD and Chorus2 (as part of the orig. install from OpenELEC-RPi2.arm-8.0.4)
HTH
j