a not so general question

[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

So I tried my luck with a Western Digital Passport drive for my Kenwood KVT 819 flip out, needless to say it didn't work. I returned it before I could try to see if like a Y connector would work on the device but has anyone found a hard drive to work with these so called USB ports?

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[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

My other thought was to get a Y connector and try to give it double the power off my 2 x USB connections but then i'd lose my iPod

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

i think the only work up to a set amount of space like (not sure if this is true) under 5gigs or something

 

[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

im not sure if it's true either, if it can read an iPod, flash memory or not, it should be able to understand a bigger partition.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

maybe it is a power issue.....not enough power output to spin up a hd

 

[tsenfw 10+ year member]

was it formated with fat 32 or NTFS? Maybe it needs fat 32

 

[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

im trying to utilize the divx capabilities of this device and the thought of having over 100+ cds is starting to ****. i guess it's just trial an error at this point.

 

[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

i'm gonna go with it being a power issue. I need to get more power to it, maybe I will have to run a HD off like an inverter or something. I didn't want to go that route, just wanted to see if anyone else has had any luck with the USB provided input

 

[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

Fat32

 

[Enellz 10+ year member]

maybe it is a power issue.....not enough power output to spin up a hd

thats what I am guessing. I was thinking of buying a hard drive, but was concerned because I thought this might be an issue.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

i'm gonna go with it being a power issue. I need to get more power to it, maybe I will have to run a HD off like an inverter or something. I didn't want to go that route, just wanted to see if anyone else has had any luck with the USB provided input

you could try it to make sure....then you have either figured it out or ruled out another potential issue:idea:

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

get a sshd...no more power problems

 

[tsenfw 10+ year member]

Yeah, how big are flash drives these days. 1 or 2 is probably all you need. and they're cheap!

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

http://isl30fvi3w.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/worlds-largest-capacity-usb-flash-drive-so-far/

 

[somekindofhate 10+ year member]

yeah that's awesome, i'm just trying to be practical. I know this hu can read larger partitions