Comments on: State of the USB Bounty

By: Warmingup

Warmingup — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:15:03 +0000

I at first I thought that this would be a really great Hack….especially as I rushed in and got a teenie weenie 40Gb version….but now I find that streaming from my iMac (500Gb) is pretty much perfect….(Wireless at home) so I have adequate storage anyway……still fascinated to give it a try though…….

Warmingup

By: Maak3

Maak3 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:41:25 +0000

I guess we’ll have to wait another several months for this to be updated!

By: Moduz

Moduz — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:02:33 +0000

Ok it has been a week and I would assume it hasn’t been debunked, so to quote Teddy KGB from rounders, “Pay him… Pay that man his money.”

By: spids

spids — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:33:58 +0000

If we are using the AppleTV for network storage for long periods of time would it over heat?

By: davilla

davilla — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:24:21 +0000

silly comment engine, I thought that first post failed.

By: davilla

davilla — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:13:44 +0000

Patrick W, that would be great. There are others out there who would like the get audio from the analog output. I’m able to private test your patch. I’m doing linux kernel hardware debugging to solve various issues with linux on the AppleTV. The target is a MythTV frontend decoding 1080i HD content and it does it quite well despite the nvidia running at pci-express X2 instead of X16 like it should.

Good luck with the bounty.

By: davilla

davilla — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:07:33 +0000

Patrick W, if you want private tester for your patch, that I can do. I’m doing various linux kernel debugging regarding linux on the AppleTV. Target is MythTV frontend viewing 1080i MPEG2 content. Some issues but it does have the ponies with nvidia hardware assist. Now if I could just get the nvidia chipset to come up as X16 instead of X2 on pci-express, I’d be a happy camper.

Also I just poped a guide for formating all the AppleTV partition formats all under linux, no OSX required. see the awkwardtv forums.

Good luck on the bounty.

By: luck

luck — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:49:26 +0000

Man, sorry about that, Patrick. I should have checked with you first.

By: Patrick W.

Patrick W. — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:26:14 +0000

I’m the submitter, and let me correct Luck: I am indeed the same person as Nightwatch. 🙂

Thanks for your interest in the audio patch… should be motivation to getting to work on polishing it. I’m going to submit it to ALSA, so I’d like it to be “kernel quality” as it were.

By: luck

luck — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:01:47 +0000

mayo, regarding netboot. I don’t have information on that right now. But that’s a great idea. I will attempt to find some more information on that.

Rick, the way the hack should work is that the usb drive would act as primary storage for the Apple TV. However, the boot drive is still the internal drive inside the Apple TV. Will the hard drive be available on the network? I think that depends on the setup of your hacked Apple TV. But as far as the patch goes, there is no mention in the rules about making it available on the network.

C.Greene, you have a good point. I guess it can be one of the test scenarios we can use. Just unplug the usb drive and see if the Apple TV falls back to use the internal drive as primary storage.

davilla, the submitter is not the same person as Nightwatch.

Thank you guys for writing.