External 2.5" disk is not working

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First of all: Great job on this app. It's a thing of beauty!

I'm having this problem since I got a new harddisk for CoverFloader 1.1
Upgading to 1.2 and 1.2a has not resolved the issue, and I have been using
an external 3.5" disk without problems for months now.

Just for my Wii I bought the kinda Wii-looking 2.5" harddrive case:
• ICY BOX IB-223StU-Wh
(http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/products/external_cases.php?we_objectID=5559)

Into it I built this harddrive:
• Seagate Momentus 5400.6 Model: ST9320325AS (320GB)

Partitioning the drive as well as formating it to WBFS and transfering game
ISOs is no problem on a PC, and the WBFS software gives me no grief at all.
But CoverFloader, after a ferw seconds of "Initializing Disk..." gives me
the gray "USB Error - Drive not found". At this point, the Wii Remote lost
the connection and can not connect again, and I don't get a pointer on the
screen, which lets me suspect, that the application has crashed at this point.

During the startup of CoverFloader, before the red bar even shows, I notica
one single, short flicker of the external drive's activity LED.

I had the suspicion that maybe this is a power issue and that the harddisk
is not receiving enough power from the Wii's USB ports to function
properly, but when I format the drive with FAT32 and use the WiiXplorer, I
can use the drive without problems. To test this I copied a large RAR
archive (ca. 50MB) from the SD card to the drive and then unpacked it
againon the PC, which worked just fine, so power can't be the issue here.

I even copied the working WBFS partition from my 3.5" drive 1:1 to the new
2.5" drive using Arconis Disk Director's 'copy partition' function. No change!

I must say that TeknoConsolas SD&USB loader (1.5) does just as little.
Allthough it does not crash, it tells me "No WBFS partition found!" and on
the attempt to format, says "Error: No partitions found!".

The Wii Homebrew software LSUSB gives the following readout for the device:

152d:2329 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp.

USB Device Details:
    bLength: 18
    bDescriptorType: 1
    bcdUSB:  2.00
    bDeviceClass: 0
    bDeviceSubClass: 0
    bDeviceProtocol: 0
    bMaxPacketSize0: 64
    idVendor: 0x152d
    idProduct: 0x2329
    bcdDevice:  1.00
    iManufacturer: 1
    iProduct: 2
    iSerialNumber: 5
    bNumConfigurations: 1
Config Descriptors:
    bLength: 9
    bDescriptorType: 2
    wTotalLength: 32
    bNumInterfaces: 1
    bConfigurationValue: 1
    iConfiguration: 4
    bmAttributes: 0xc0
    bMaxPower: 1
Interface Descriptors:
    bLength: 9
    bDescriptorType: 4
    bInterfaceNumber: 0
    bAlternateSetting: 0
    bNumEndpoints: 2
    bInterfaceClass: 8
    bInterfaceSubClass: 6
    bInterfaceProtocol: 80
    iInterface: 6
Endpoint Descriptors:
    bLength: 7
    bDescriptorType: 5
    bEndpointAddress: 0x81
    bmAttributes: 0x02
    wMaxPacketSize: 0x0040
    bInterval: 0
    bLength: 7
    bDescriptorType: 5
    bEndpointAddress: 0x02
    bmAttributes: 0x02
    wMaxPacketSize: 0x0040
    bInterval: 0

The Windows software USBDeview gives the following readout for the device:

Device Name:    Port_#0001.Hub_#0006
Description:    ST932032 5AS USB Device
Device Type:    Mass Storage
Serial Number:  6D06B7FFFFFF
VendorID:   152d
ProductID   2329
USB Class:  08
USB SubClass    06
USB Protocol:   50                  

I really hope

Original issue reported on code.google.com by axio...@gmx.net on 21 Oct 2009 at 1:19

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...I really hope this will help you make your app even more awesome! ;-)

Original comment by axio...@gmx.net on 21 Oct 2009 at 1:22

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I hate to break it to you, but the issue is the enclosure you are using is not 
compatiable with a Wii usb loader....

http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Devices_Compatibility_List

Scroll down until you get to enclosures, yours is listed as "Doesn't Work". Try 
a 
new enclosure that is onb the list as working and see if that resolves it for 
you.

Original comment by stmoxley...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2009 at 3:58

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Thanks for the info and sorry for not having seen that myself.

Is there any chance that the enclosure will be included in future updates?

So far, I still have the big, ugly 3.5" drive connected, so I can afford to be
patient... ;-)

Original comment by axio...@gmx.net on 22 Oct 2009 at 5:01

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Most likely not, there are a few icybox enclosures for 2.5" drives that will 
work 
however. My hard drive is pushed all the way to the back so you can not see it, 
but 
I have been looking at a few nice terabyte enclosers for around $100. A few are 
white, and listed on that list..

Original comment by stmoxley...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2009 at 11:03

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Yeah, I guess I will have to find another enclosure, especially since 
CoverFloader
appears to be based on Waninkoko's USB Loader, who just anounced his depature 
from
the Wii platform last month... :-(

Ah well... :-)

Original comment by axio...@gmx.net on 23 Oct 2009 at 7:32