*Successful* PATCHSTICK from LaCie external hard drive!!!!!!

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What steps will reproduce the SOLUTION?
1. Updated ATV to 2.4 and wasted most-of-a-Sunday w/ numerous USB drives,
patch attempts, power cycles, pulling hair out   
2. Loaded patchstick onto LaCie 160gb external hard-drive
3. Plugged into ATV using USB cable and it worked!

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Alternate method to get ATV-USB-Creator working w/ Apple TV 2.4 without USB
sticks

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
MacBookPro OS 10.5.6
atv-usb-creator-1.0b10
Downloaded AppleTV 2.4 dmg
(http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-6242.20090624.Aq20P/2Z694-5660-029.dmg)
for use in atv-usb rather than download link in-software
LaCie 160gb HardDrive (Triple-Interface USB, FW400, FW800)

Please provide any additional information below.

That was it! Many failed attempts using various USB sticks (including the
one I originally used for PATCHSTICK before the AppleTV 2.4 update). 

I apologize if a similar install has been performed and/or documented
elsewhere. Don't mean to be redundant. I just wasn't able to find an
instance of this working in my google searches around various forums. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by feverc...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2009 at 9:47

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Just an update.... all is well. Everything working fine. Went to doublecheck
everything (especially the use of an external USB drive) and I re-formatted the 
SAME
LaCie external to move some videos / music to for a test. Probably obvious to 
most
but DO NOT FORMAT *** MAC OSX EXTENDED (JOURNALED) ***. 

In my haste to get everything going again after the 2.4 update debacle, I must 
have
made that selection in Disk Utility by mistake. Re-formatted the SAME LaCie 
drive Mac
OSX Extended, plugged it in and it was immediately happy. Everything playing 
back
fine as I type this, loading it soon with more media.     

Original comment by feverc...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2009 at 2:03

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Has anyone been able to make this work with atv-usb-creator-1.0b13?

Original comment by pier...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2010 at 2:15

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Don't have any USB sticks, just an external hard drive.  Trying this now on 
1.0b13 with my 100gb WD hard drive.  
Note I had to modify line 654 of 
./lib/python2.5/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py to increase the maximum 
allowed disk size.

Original comment by drspring...@gmail.com on 9 May 2010 at 3:51

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the disk size limit is 64gb, acquiring devices with a size < this is easy and 
cheap.

Original comment by Sam.Nazarko on 10 May 2010 at 6:30