No ofcourse not, that will most likely cause firmware to switch the ethernet port to become primary and would either screw up or totaly ignore the USB bus connection hehe.
This HDD is just collecting dust in a box of old stuff. It has thus far been too small (500GB) for me to find any use for it but it's a great size for WII/GC backups etc.
Ok, so far things only got worse since the rehack (4.1 but new ios wads from modmii).
Ok, it SOMETIMES detects the HDD in the latest version of the forwarder/GX but IF it does (after 50 resets where it does not, and/or hangs) but then 90% of the NTSC-U/J games give me a black screen on start even when forcing PAL60 but whats even worse is that my 3.0c channel which DID work without any problems stopped working as well! So there goes my fallback for wii games...
I even tried to go from v8 to beta 10 on nase 56/57 slot 249/250 but that didn't improve things either.
I tried rolling back to v6 to make the 3.0c channel work again but that didn't work either so another IOS must be messing with that because it did work before.
I fixed the GC load error though, the HDD was set to logical instead of primary. Not that I actually got one to boot, it just hung and restarted GX but thats a problem for later concern.
I tried CFG loader as well, same issue, can't detect HDD.
What I did find out is that if HBC doesnt detect the HDD (greyed out HDD option) it does detect it when I turn it off and back on again (black and selectable HDD option)... This rarely works for the forwarder.
Thats the story so far.... It CAN detect the HDD so it's not like its incompatible because then it doesnt work AT ALL... *shrugs* really need help...