Okay, so having used several different drives with the AppleTV (both internal and eSata external) I got tired of constantly using terminal to image the original drive and then format the new drive. I can use the cli terminal commands just fine, but as I said I am lazy. So I wrote a small gui utility that does it for me called AtvCloner. You can read about and download it here.
Now, I have had good success with it on five different drives on a vanilla install of 10.5.7 Mac OSX Leopard but I make no warranties it will work for you. However, feel free to give it a try and if it works drop me a line. Be sure to read the guarantee part because like anything free … there isn’t one of any sort.
Currently it is at version 0.1.1 which of course indicates it isn’t even alpha yet (and maybe never will be). Hopefully it works for you and saves a lot of headache.
Cheers.
So, being lazy and such I decided to put up a new site using wordpress. Nice for management, etc. but for some reason which I cannot ascertain it’s very slow. It’s on its own server but apparently something with WordPress is borked. Anyway I figured I’d do this since my work with the HandBrake project has led me to things which do not really fit there but I figure someone might find useful. Most of this will probably have to do with video encoding ( mostly mac based ) and using video media on Apple products. Right now I am mostly running HandBrake encodes on the AppleTV.
One thing I have found useful is this hardware hack for the AppleTV. The AppleTV eSata Mod is a post I wrote on the HandBrake forums illustrating how I modded the “ATV” to use an external eSata drive to increase its local storage up to 1 TB and above. More on that to come. As well, since I got tired of using the OSX terminal to clone the atv drive, I wrote a mac osx gui to clone you’re AppleTV hard drive to a new, possibly larger hard drive since I am notoriously cli-phobic. More on that later as well. As a developer of the HandBrake MacGui (macintosh graphical user interface) I will try to elaborate here on why it is the way it is … from time to time.
Cheers.