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Everyone Purchased Touch less than a week ago. Main reason was for the local USB storage. Had nothing but problems until i was informed of Touch nightly software builds. Having gone through numerous filesystems/formats, I now have a 500Gb external usb drive formatted as NTFS and there are no issues with playback. Beyond me that the unit would have arrived with such outdated firmware - server software. Had a sticker been put on the informing me of the nightly builds, I could have saved myself a few days of frustration. I tested a half dozen drives - am wondering if there will be native support for Apple's HFS+ filesystem, sometimes if incorrectly referred to as MacOS Extended Journaled. The Squeeze OS is running on an embedded Linux system and Linux can mount a HFS+ journaled disk. The disk needs to unmounted properly from OS X, so the journal is empty, and then on the Linux side of the equation, the mount has to be forced, so it can be both read and write and not read-only. The trick is to make sure the journal is empty (clean unmount on the OSX side) and to force the mount. Normally Linux will mount it read-only with a command similar to this: mount -t hfsplus -o rw,force /dev/sdx1 ds It would be far more convenient for Mac users to have this support and I believe HFS+ is far more lenient with respect to file names and sizes. -- davidavdavid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ davidavdavid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86446 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
