Thanks for taking the time to write such great tutorials. After searching and trying many methods, your was the most complete and easy to understand. I have the 3.4U firmware and already had homebrew installed from before. I used your tutorials to install IOS249, Hermes' IOS222/223, and the configurable USB bootloader. I have several 2.5" drives (both IDE and SATA) and USB adapters to match. I have formated the drives with FAT32 and then WBFS using the WBFS manager. No matter what I do I can't get the USBloader to recognize the drives. Even when I leave them FAT32. I have tried using both USB ports (closest to the edge 1st) and still can't get them to recognize the partition.

Do I need to be using drives that get external power? I have a cable that uses both USB ports for more power but that is not working either. In all cases the drives light up and I can feel them spinning but USBloader fails to recognize them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.