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waefwaeefwaefw
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Joined: 20 Feb 2008
Location: United States
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Well, i got a 250GB drive working on the unit on Fat32, but im wondering if a 1TB drive will run on this dvd drive.
Thanks in advance
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DarrellS
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Joined: 28 Nov 2002
Location: United States
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I reformatted mine to NTSF to use with my WD HD media player so I can't say for sure but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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waefwaeefwaefw
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Joined: 20 Feb 2008
Location: United States
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Ok, just making sure, because i have never used external hard drives for on DVD players, and do not know if there are some incompatibility with big drives. This DVD Player don't read USB devices in NTSF.
Edit: Typos.
Last edited by waefwaeefwaefw on Dec 07, 2008 19:42, edited 2 times in total
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redwudz
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Joined: 07 Sep 2002
Location: AZ, USA
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It should work, but the 5990 does have a file system limit, I think about 648 files it can see. I used SwissKnife to convert the drives to FAT32, but the largest I converted was 500GB and it had about 480 Xvid/Divx files on it.
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waefwaeefwaefw
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Joined: 20 Feb 2008
Location: United States
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Oh... so is it pointless to have a TB hard drive on the 5990? Could I get more files to be seen? Like putting them in different folders or different partitions? Hmmm, cause if not i would get some smaller drives
Thanks!
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redwudz
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Location: AZ, USA
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waefwaeefwaefw
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Joined: 20 Feb 2008
Location: United States
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Ah, yes, ive came across that site, and have read it before, when i was looking up the customized firmware by vb6rocod. I just didnt remember it too well and forgot if i did indeed read that, n where it was from. Well, I'm going to get another TB drive. I guess im going to get a drive locally which is prob a WD MyBook to test around first, if that dont work w/e it will become a computer backup drive.
THANKS!!!!!!
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lacywest
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Joined: 28 Aug 2001
Location: California
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| waefwaeefwaefw wrote: |
Ah, yes, ive came across that site, and have read it before, when i was looking up the customized firmware by vb6rocod. I just didnt remember it too well and forgot if i did indeed read that, n where it was from. Well, I'm going to get another TB drive. I guess im going to get a drive locally which is prob a WD MyBook to test around first, if that dont work w/e it will become a computer backup drive.
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Good Luck with the WD MyBook ... I got one ... and took it with me when I went to work ... eventually the powerplug would not make contact and power the Drive inside.
So I took it apart and used the Drive in another USB hook up. I wont get another WD MyBook. SeaGate 500GB USB devices are okay ... easy to tip over and fall to the ground. I had it hooked up to a PC in the dining room area where my Daughter in law and son used a computer. They didn't tell me it was getting knocked off the table. Fell twice ... the drive on the second fall killed it. I gut it and the WD drive that wouldn't power up ... is now sitting up on a shelf in my garage where I have one of my PCs at and works just fine ... bare wires sticking out ... but I'm using it.
I eventually had another USB Drive for them to use ... one day I looked at the table ... it was hanging over the table dangling down still attached to the wires  .... they now have NO USB 2.0 Drive connected to their PC ... they run out of room ... oh well. They have a DVD Burner installed in the PC ... but neither one of them no what or how to use it. I have tried to show the 14 year old ... but he would rather just sit there and play games. He don't do any chores around the house ... useless.
And Maxtor 500 GB devices are okay but I will not get another Western Digital. Staples had the Maxtor 500 GB on sale last summer ... I bought 2 of them ... $90 each ... I now have 3 of them ... the 2 I got on sale are still in their boxes ... not opened up.
I'm not in a good mood ... around 6PM ... hours ago ... the neighbors dogs broke a board off and got into our yard ... killed our cat PJ ... that cat didn't hurt or bother anybody ... County Animal Control showed up ... they took 2 of his dogs ... to be put away. One of them was a .... Pit Bull. Stupid dog ... he actually tried to go through our doggie door to get into our house.
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HeXen: Edge Of Chaos - Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:12 pm ... They still need mappers to finish the conversion.
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shadow_cruiser
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Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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It does work. I have two 1TB drives formatted to FAT32 that I used with the 5990. To get around the file limitation, you have to organize your content. What I did was create folders from A-Z and place all the movies in the appropiate folders according to the name.
It will be VERY hard to search through everything if you have all your content in the root of the drive.
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Blitzd
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Joined: 08 Dec 2008
Location: United States
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I have a 750GB Seagate and Maxtor 640GB(Daughters) and both work with 5990. I put my extracted dvd's in thier named folders with the video_ts folder as a sub folder. You don't need the audio_ts. That would mean with the 300 folder limitation, 2 folders per Movie, a max. of about 630GB. (approx. 4.2 GB per folder x 150 folders).I have some xvid files also. I haven't tried this yet but I guess if I name xvids and put up to 300 in folders I could get much more out of the space.
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