USB limit in Pioneer DV-420

[vigneshprabhu]

Hi,
I recently purchased a DV 420. I tried connecting my 320 GB Western Digital passport to it. Its formatted as FAT32 and has 29GB of data. Number of Folders where also less then 300. But the player does not read it. Just keeps displaying Loading....

Till what limit has some one connected a external hard drive successfully to it ?
Is it because the USB port is not able to give the drive sufficient power ?

I have another external powered 500GB drive but its NTFS. would the external powered drive get read if i somehow manager to make it FAT32 ?

Thanks in advance....

 

[venkatcr]

I am not very sure, but we discussed this in detail in another thread.

• The Pioneer DVD Players 420 and 220 will only read FAT16 and FAT 32 drives.
  
• They will not supply any power through their own USB. The drives have to be externally powered.
  
• The players will read a maximum of roughly 150GB and max of around 200 odd files. (not too sure about these numbers)
  
• The players will only read the files they understand and these are listed in the manuals.

Cheers

 

[shredder]

I have the DV220 and I am playing movies off a portable HDD without any hitches. In fact the drive reads slightly faster as compared to a Corsair FlashVoyager 8GB. Are you sure the HDD is in FAT 32 format? Try using Compuapps Swissknife V3 to format the drive and then try again. The app can be downloaded free of charge from the Compuapps website. Let me know if it works.