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OK guys, I am having an issue with Aurora 0.7b.  I have an internal 2TB drive, as well as 2x2TB external USB drives.  Everything was fine with one internal and one external.  Now with both externals, when I look in the file manager, it clearly shows USB0 and USB1 devices.  Thats all fine.  However, when I go to map folders from the 2nd USB drive, I run into the issue saying that this folder has already been mapped.  Weird I know.  So I started troubleshooting.  Eventually I changed the folders on the second USB drive by adding 1 to the end.  This is where I found the issue.  So adding 1 to the end, allows me to map the drive, it comes up in the search, everything, however, none of them will work.  If you Press Y, then goto the goto folder option, it wigs out.  Also, looking in the managed paths, it never adds USB1 to the directory, only USB0, which is why it wouldn't let me add the folders on the new drive.  

Can anyone tell me why this is happening, and how to fix this?  Im at a loss, and can't figure out whats wrong.  Its just weird that half the application treats the 2nd USB drive correctly and lists it, but the mappings only show 1 USB drive.  But what was really weird is that it let me list all the games on the 2nd drive and showed them in color as being connected.  This has me stumped.  I really love using Aurora, but I'm not sure whats going on.

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Have you tried using one at the back port and one at the front port?? Are they using an external power source or using the xbox as the power?? 

Are you using a phat or slim?? Now while I cant exactly help or give info to this problem.. Someone who can might ask those questions anyway.. 

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Have you tried using one at the back port and one at the front port?? Are they using an external power source or using the xbox as the power?? 

Are you using a phat or slim?? Now while I cant exactly help or give info to this problem.. Someone who can might ask those questions anyway.. 

 

Edit: are they 2 different hdd brands?? As the same brand might log as identical even tho they are different.. This is more than likely the cause as well lol.. I spaced on that.. 

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i have not tried one in the front and one in the back.  The are self powered.  Trinity Slim RGH.  Its just so weird that the Aurora File Manager sees both drives as USB0 and USB1.  Its only an error when it comes to mapping.  Like mapping refuses to see the USB1 paths.  IDK.  Thanks for responding, hopefully some more people will chime in.  

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13 minutes ago, ibbanez said:

i have not tried one in the front and one in the back.  The are self powered.  Trinity Slim RGH.  Its just so weird that the Aurora File Manager sees both drives as USB0 and USB1.  Its only an error when it comes to mapping.  Like mapping refuses to see the USB1 paths.  IDK.  Thanks for responding, hopefully some more people will chime in.  

Like I said.. If they are the exact same brand and such, they will register as identical hdds.. Which could be causing the issue.. I totally forgot about that lol.. The id's being identical..

 

Edit: the uuids iirc.. It isnt an issue on PC as they will read as separate hdds.. But on aurora.. It will see them as the same hdd in 2 places and cause issues lol

 

Edit 2: and easier way to identify this; plug the hdds in separately.. Meaning try 1, then unplug and plug in the other.. It will act normally and such that way.. 

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Just for more info, adding to the front, doesn't matter.  Under the mapping, it still shows both drives as USB0.

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Sorry, didn't see the edit, they are indeed the same brand.  Nothing ever said anything against doing that, so I didn't know.  Dang it.  I guess time to see if I have time in my return window and return this one and get another.

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Alright, Im going to test your theory.  I filed a return on Amazon, and ordered a Western Digital HDD to replace it.  Now I wished I wouldn't have removed all the mappings of the first one in troubleshooting 😜 oh well, Its not to bad adding everything back.  Once I get this going, I'll reload everything, and then I'll have my 6TB x360 and I just finished getting my original Xbox setup with a 2tb sata drive and im copying everything over to that now as well.  Just wish the Ethernet was faster on the original Xbox 😜 lol first world problems.

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50 minutes ago, ibbanez said:

Alright, Im going to test your theory.  I filed a return on Amazon, and ordered a Western Digital HDD to replace it.  Now I wished I wouldn't have removed all the mappings of the first one in troubleshooting 😜 oh well, Its not to bad adding everything back.  Once I get this going, I'll reload everything, and then I'll have my 6TB x360 and I just finished getting my original Xbox setup with a 2tb sata drive and im copying everything over to that now as well.  Just wish the Ethernet was faster on the original Xbox 😜 lol first world problems.

The ethernet runs at 11MB/s lol.. Yes it would be great to get full 100M.. But you can easily use USB 3.0 on pc for your externals.. Lol, plus I said you could check if it was the same problem.. But if both externals are showing up as same port then yeah.. Its reading as same drive lol

 Also some enclosures can cause the same uuid problem lol..  

Unfortunately there is no workaround for this lolol

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Sorry, when I was talking about the Ethernet, I was referring to the Original Xbox I also just finished modding.  Sorry if that blended together.  I loaded them from the PC on the externals, as you said.  The weird part about this whole thing is how the File manager sees them as two separate drives, and lists them as USB0 and USB1.  To me, that would mean that they can differentiate between the two drives.  The only issue is when Mapping comes into play.  But the new HDD will be here Tuesday, and about a day or so to load everything, but I will let you guys know, so at least this is documented in case anyone else ever runs into this.  It'll be my luck that's its not the drives, but the enclosures causing the issue :p  as they are both the same type of enclosures as well 😜  We shall see.

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5 hours ago, ibbanez said:

Sorry, when I was talking about the Ethernet, I was referring to the Original Xbox I also just finished modding.  Sorry if that blended together.  I loaded them from the PC on the externals, as you said.  The weird part about this whole thing is how the File manager sees them as two separate drives, and lists them as USB0 and USB1.  To me, that would mean that they can differentiate between the two drives.  The only issue is when Mapping comes into play.  But the new HDD will be here Tuesday, and about a day or so to load everything, but I will let you guys know, so at least this is documented in case anyone else ever runs into this.  It'll be my luck that's its not the drives, but the enclosures causing the issue :p  as they are both the same type of enclosures as well 😜  We shall see.

There has been discussion before.. Hence why I remembered it lol.. But yeah mate

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Well, that sux.  A new HDD, completely different brand, and the same thing is happening with the mapping.  Does anyone know a way to reach out to the developers and see if its possibly a bug?  I am going to try the last thing I can and buy yet another enclosure and see what happens with that.

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And me further add.  It even lets me pick the folder, its only when you goto save does it say,

"The path you are trying to add already exists.
Please try again with a new path."

So weird.  Well the new enclosure will be here on Thursday, so that is the last thing to try.  Wish me luck.

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1 hour ago, ibbanez said:

And me further add.  It even lets me pick the folder, its only when you goto save does it say,

"The path you are trying to add already exists.
Please try again with a new path."

So weird.  Well the new enclosure will be here on Thursday, so that is the last thing to try.  Wish me luck.

Its the enclosure.. Lol.. You can even check the database .. The uuid is coming up as the same.. It isnt a bug..

 

As its the way it works.. Plus it's a hardware issue as the enclosure is registering as the same.. 

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So i got the new enclosure in, and sure enough that was the issue.  I now have everything working as expected and all 6TB loaded up with Games including 203 OG Xbox titles.  Also just got my old OG Xbox up and running with its new 2TB SATA drive, so things are going great now.  Now, just gotta move some things around and clean up and test out some of the multi disk things and fix those where necessary.  Thanks for all the help guys.

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Just now, ibbanez said:

So i got the new enclosure in, and sure enough that was the issue.  I now have everything working as expected and all 6TB loaded up with Games including 203 OG Xbox titles.  Also just got my old OG Xbox up and running with its new 2TB SATA drive, so things are going great now.  Now, just gotta move some things around and clean up and test out some of the multi disk things and fix those where necessary.  Thanks for all the help guys.

No problem.. Lol.. Glad it was sorted out.. My apologies it is a pain, but it is how aurora is coded.. It might be even deeper than aurora, and be a kernel issue.. But either way.. Glad it works proper now mate

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