I'm getting all sorts of issues with this toshiba drive inside an enclosure. It's a 2,5" drive, USB 2.0, 320GB and it works wonders in Windows but gives me problems on Wii, like: I launch homebrew launcher and the drive stops to spin and the light on the hdd turns off. If I reconnect it it works again, but everytime I load something, like USB Loader GX, it keeps stopping and most of the times I have to unplug-plug.
The drive is formatted correctly,I'm not new to this stuff. MBR, FAT32, all good really, and the drive itself is new.
I noticed on Windows that it goes to sleep after like 5/6 minutes of inactivity. While this behaviour would be fine for Windows, it's a disaster for the Wii which I believe wants the HDD on at all times. I think that's my problem, but I haven't been able to find a solution. I found a program called hdparm which fixes this for Windows/Linux but it does nothing when the HDD is plugged in something else.
So I narrowed it down to one of these three things:
_ drives likes to sleep
_ the enclosure used likes to put hdd to sleep
_ hdd is not getting enough power from the Wii and I need a Y cable (unlikely since we're talking about the Wii and not the Wii U but who knows?)
Any advice?
The drive is formatted correctly,I'm not new to this stuff. MBR, FAT32, all good really, and the drive itself is new.
I noticed on Windows that it goes to sleep after like 5/6 minutes of inactivity. While this behaviour would be fine for Windows, it's a disaster for the Wii which I believe wants the HDD on at all times. I think that's my problem, but I haven't been able to find a solution. I found a program called hdparm which fixes this for Windows/Linux but it does nothing when the HDD is plugged in something else.
So I narrowed it down to one of these three things:
_ drives likes to sleep
_ the enclosure used likes to put hdd to sleep
_ hdd is not getting enough power from the Wii and I need a Y cable (unlikely since we're talking about the Wii and not the Wii U but who knows?)
Any advice?
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