just got a Sony head unit and need help

[meso]

I recently purchased a av-ax8100. I've tried every partition type every media format and I can't get anything to read off of all five of my hard drives. I've tried SSD I've tried non SSD drives. No matter what I can't get it to see files on the drive. It sees the drive it highlights yellow. No matter what I put in there especially basic things like MP3 files it just doesn't see it. Any ideas as this is very new to me

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[Kickstand Premium Member]

Are you using full hard drives or jump drives (usb sticks)
Are you formating in NTFS or Fat32
How big are the drives

 

[meso]

Are you using full hard drives or jump drives (usb sticks)
Are you formating in NTFS or Fat32
How big are the drives

Using a big hard drive over a gig on all drives. I formated to fat 32 and ntfs

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

It's not always the file format of the drive. Quite often it is the size of the drive. A lot of head units will only accept drives of the FAT32 file type and 64GB and under USB drives.

 

[RobGMN 5,000+ posts]

Try using thumb a thumb drive before you go too crazy diagnosing it. Could be that the Sony is not set up to access a standard hard drive.

"MSC (Mass Storage Class) type USB devices* compliant with the USB standard can be used.
*e.g., a USB flash drive, digital media player"