Some of you may have realized that USB mass storage devices attached to the PlayOn!HD are automatically mounted as read-only. In a read-only mount, you cannot write files to the drive.

The following script will remount all available USB mass storage devices (mounted in read-only mode) as read-write!

The down side is that you got to execute the script every time you plug in a new device. The script work best with View USB storage attached to A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD over network.

#!/bin/sh
# author: shadowandy.sg[at]gmail[dot]com <http://www.shadowandy.net>
#
# Simple remounting script for A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD Media Player
#
# Version 1.1
#

try_remount() {
echo “remounting $1 as read-write”
mount -o,remount,rw $1
}

if [$(mount | grep /tmp/usbmounts/ | grep ro | wc -l) -eq 0 ]; then
echo “no read-only usb drives found!”
else
echo “remounting read-only usb drives…”
for remount in $(mount | grep /tmp/usbmounts/ | grep ro | cut -d ” ” -f3); do
try_remount $remount
sleep 1
done
echo “all read-only usb drives mounted as read-write!”
fi

Creating the script

1. Telnet and login to your A.C.Ryan PlayOn!HD
2. In the command prompt window, enter “vi /tmp/hdd/root/script/remount.sh“
3. In the vi window, press “i” to start edit mode
4. Paste the content of the above script
5. Press “<ESC>” to exit out of edit mode
6. Enter “:wq” to save the script
7. Enter “ls /tmp/hdd/root/script”
   remount.sh should be listed as one of the files

Executing the script

1. In the command window, enter “sh /tmp/hdd/root/script/remount.sh”
   The script would remount existing read-only USB drives as read-write