Flashing Help!

[mickyblueys]

Yes congrats, glad you're sorted. Again I've had no problems with my USB's, but I've read about plenty of people who have, I guess you're one of the unlucky ones.

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[ddEEEn]

Glad you are sorted, keep that battered old 128MB stick handy & near your Solo...
No sticks have an issue on my solo though, what format is it?

It also has a laser pen on the end. I 'borrowed it' from a WYSE consultant at work one day.

 

[ddEEEn]

Yes congrats, glad you're sorted. Again I've had no problems with my USB's, but I've read about plenty of people who have, I guess you're one of the unlucky ones.

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Exactly! I thought I was going mad trying 3 different USB drives but I guess sometimes it happens.

In other news, I notice on your sig you have your swap file in your main HDD and other features on another storage location.

Since I have the Solo I only have 1 rear USB port, which will be used for an external HDD and 1 front port. I don't really fancy having a USB drive sticking out of the front port. Would you advise configuring the swap file and point it to a directory on my external HDD, or since I only have the one storage device would you advise to leave it as default.

Thanks, Dean.

 

[mickyblueys]

If you are going down the swap file avenue, putting it on your hdd, shouldn't be a problem same for epg. Might have to put Picons in flash though, not 100%. Also permanent timeshift may be a problem. You're hdd would be spinning all the time. You can use a USB hub from the rear port, but it has to be a powered one. Then you can connect a usb pen drive to the rear .I'm sure one of the mods will give you a much better idea than I can.

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[ddEEEn]

Makes sense Micky, I think I am going to go down the powered hub route!

Did you find that it made quite a performance difference?

 

[mickyblueys]

I personally haven't used the hub as I have multiple USB Ports in back. But the swap file along with a plug in called "cache flush" has certainly helped my duo. Not sure if it's in feeds or not as I got it of this site somewhere.

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