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Seagate FreeAgent formated to HFS

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I have been meaning to post this for sometime now but for some odd reason it has remained in my drafts folder. I picked up a Seagate 1tb FreeAgent USB Drive for my AppleTV around 6 months ago. I tried to format it to HFS and it kept giving me errors. After searching for a few I found the fix for this.

Open Disk Utility
Click on the Partition
Click on the Current Volume Scheme drop-down and select One Partition
Click on the options button and chose either the GUID Partition button or the Apple Partition Map button
Click OK, you can adjust the other options if you so desire
Click Apply, The partition screen should open
Click Partition

After that has completed it will unmount and remount. Upon remount Time Machine might ask you about using the drive for backups, I chose no. Hope this helps anyone that has format issues with their Seagate 1tb FreeAgent.

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OsX86 on MSI Wind Desktop : Part 2

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

So I added a 40gb SATA drive to the machine and installed OSx86 to that.  Once the install was complete the machine booted right up.  The only issue is that the video driver was only allowing 800×600.  Once I obtained the updated driver and did a reboot I was able to get 1280×1024.  Everything was working great … So I decided to do an upgrade in hoped to not screw it up.
I updated to 10.5.6 with the Combo updater.  After the install before I rebooted I reinstalled the Video Driver.  When it rebooted the first time it got a kernel panic.  I restarted again and passed -v -f to the boot options.  It booted right up.  After that I did one more reboot and it worked, and was very fast as well.
Once it was back up and running with 10.5.6 I did the software update and grabbed all of the avail updates.  So far so good.

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AFP on AppleTV 2.3.1

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

If you are running Apple TV 2.3.1 and want to have AFP installed you will need to obtain a copy of AppleTV 1.1 software. If you dont have a backup, check with a friend or your local torrent site to grab a copy. Once you obtain the backup DMG file you can extract the following files

/System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ByteRangeLocking.framework

Upload the files to your AppleTV and then SSH to the AppleTV. Run the following commands to move the files to the proper location

sudo mv AppleFileServer.app/ /System/Library/CoreServices/
sudo mv ByteRangeLocking.framework/ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/

After you have moved the files you need to edit the hostconfig file to enable AFP to autostart

sudo nano -w /etc/hostconfig

Change the following

AFPSERVER=-NO-

to this

AFPSERVER=-YES-

save the file and then run the following command to start it. If it works you wont get an error message.

sudo /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer

Once started you cant hit Apple+K and enter the following to connect

afp://appletv.local

Use frontrow as the username and the password and you should be all set.

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Half Star Ratings in Itunes on OS X

Monday, December 29th, 2008

To enable half star ratings in iTunes on your Mac you can run the following from the command line.

  • defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

Let you give a more specific rating than with single solid stars

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Merry Xmas

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Just wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas.  Try to stay warm wherever you are, and please send me money so I can buy myself a new mac mini when it comes out.

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