Well, no one responded on this, but I went ahead and got a 250G IOMega USB drive yesterday (100 bucks at CompUSA).<br><br>Can vobs play? Yes<br>Out of the box? No, vfat limits file size.<br><Plug in drive><br>dmesg<br>
<check partition (sda1 for me)><br>mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1<br>mkdir /mnt/external<br>mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external<br>cp /myth/video/*vob /mnt/external<br>ln -sf /mnt/external/*vob /myth/video<br><br>Since I use gallery/folder view in mythvideo, I use symlinks. A little up keep when I add a new video but really no problem.
<br><br>No stuttering or anything on palyback using xine. Jumps feel instant.<br><br>Someday I will try <a href="http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm">http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
</a> for windows.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Garth Benedict</b> <<a href="mailto:shrkbait@gmail.com">shrkbait@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">I am looking to add an <span id="st" name="st" class="st">external</span> drive to house my DVD vobs. The list archive has a lot of speculation talk of <span id="st" name="st" class="st">external
</span> drives working, but nothing all that definitive. I already have <span id="st" name="st" class="st">USB</span> and firewire connections working, so I am not worried about drivers and such.
<br><br>Does anyone have an <span id="st" name="st" class="st">external</span> hard drive with 100% success playing vobs from it?<br><br>Firewire or USB2?<br><br>Did you have to reformat the drive to a separate file system due to the large file size?
<br><br>Thanks,
<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="sg">Garth<br><br>
</span></div></blockquote></div><br>