OpenElec Does Not Read My External HDD

[FrozenDreams]

Hi there.

I am new here. Pardon me if the question has been raised before or too simple for some.
I just installed OpenElec on my Raspberry PI and running Putty to SSH OpenElec.

RaspberryPi is having trouble looking for my external HDD where my movies and medias are on. Can someone enlighten me what I should do?

Thank you! Any help will be appreciated.

[chewitt]

Type "mount" and assuming the drive has been mounted you will see where it has been mounted. If it didn't mount the two most-probable reasons are a) the pi does not provide sufficient power to the driver over a USB cable and you either need a better PSU for the pi or (better) a powered USB hub or (best) an external PSU for the external drive, or b) You didn't cleanly unmount the drive from Windows before connecting to Linux; which cares about such things.

[dhutch85]

Rather than creating my own thread, I thought I'd share my issue in this one. I too am having trouble getting OpenELEC to read my USB HDD.

I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux. Where do I go to type "mount"? I can't see any such option in kodi. I have two storage devices listed under 'Storage Information' in system options but neither is my external HDD. The hard drive LED lights up so it must be getting enough power.

Any help appreciated.

[chewitt]

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Ssh_commands

[gda]

The hard drive LED lights up so it must be getting enough power.

That proves only that it has enough power to light up the LED, not more.

Gerald

[dhutch85]

The hard drive LED lights up so it must be getting enough power.

That proves only that it has enough power to light up the LED, not more.

Gerald

Ok fair point, Some power then

Right SSH'd into putty and when I run mount I get:

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=371968k,nr_inodes=92992,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /flash type vfat (ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /storage type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
/dev/loop0 on / type squashfs (ro,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)

I did a bit of googling and found the partled -l command which gave me:

Error: /dev/sda: unrecognised disk label
Model: WD My Passport 0740 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown


Model: SD SL16G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 269MB 268MB primary fat16 boot, lba
2 271MB 15.9GB 15.7GB primary ext4

Because this drive has been formatted on a Windows OS, do I need to format it to a linux file system?

[chewitt]

Code:

dmesg | paste

Run that ^^ and share the URL it generates. DO NOT post the entire log to the forum.

[dhutch85]

Right think I've got the root of the problem sorted and it was something mentioned earlier on in the thread, my hard drive doesn't have enough power as I could hear a clicking noise whenever it was plugged into the pi.

Until I can get something more permanent I have shared my external drive via Windows which is then picked up by OpenELEC as a network share. The wifi dongle I'm using means the speed isn't the best and struggles even with 720p playback. This way also means I have to have it plugged into my computer at all times to watch stuff on the Pi which isn't ideal.

I did look into sharing it via the router and enabling file share/samba but my router doesn't have a usb port. So I'm either going to have to look into a powered usb hub or a ethernet to USB adapter and plugging that into router (if that way will work).

[chewitt]

a powered hub will be the cheaper and least-complex option

[nikt]

If you have a proven strong psu you can try to add a line to your config .txt which give the option for more current over usb.
max_usb_current=1

Add this at the end of text and try. This works for me for the moment until I buy a powered external disc.

I forgot to say that I am using a raspberry pi 2 and a usb 2 external disc and a Bluetooth dongle powered from a 5v 3amp psu.

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