Guest cleavepm Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 I've searched through a number of threads looking for the answer to this but haven't found it. Can anyone advise what size drives can be attached to the Vega? I understand that they need to be formatted as FAT32 but can't ascertain the max drive size. I also recall reading that someone connected a drive with multiple partitions but could only see 1 partition. I intend using the Vega as a media player in the car to keep my lads quiet and am hoping that I can attach a decent size drive with a good selection of ripped movies on it. Thanks.
Guest thedicemaster Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...unting-scripts/ script 5 can be particularly useful if you want to use it for video. it will make video's on an ext2-formatted hard drive visible in gallery. with ext2 the max drive size should be larger than the largest usb drives available at this time.(2-16TB depending on exact settings while formatting) http://www.ext2fsd.com/ for if you use windows.
Guest cleavepm Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 (edited) http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...unting-scripts/ script 5 can be particularly useful if you want to use it for video. it will make video's on an ext2-formatted hard drive visible in gallery. with ext2 the max drive size should be larger than the largest usb drives available at this time.(2-16TB depending on exact settings while formatting) http://www.ext2fsd.com/ for if you use windows. Thanks for that - so are you saying that I can potentially format a drive using ext2 (up to 16Tb?) and the Vega will recognise it? Does the drive need the 1st partition to be FAT32 or can it all be EXT2? Edited February 2, 2011 by cleavepm
Guest lambrettalad Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 could i also add a question to the one above please? whats is ext2fsd? is it a different way of formatting your external HDD? At the moment I have my 80gb drive formatted 20 approx 29gb and am about to try your script for viewing a second partition. so are you saying that I can potentially format a drive using ext2 (up to 16Tb?) and the Vega will recognise it? I am wondering the same thing, I have videos, PDF docs and MP3 on my HDD. thanks
Guest cleavepm Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 could i also add a question to the one above please? whats is ext2fsd? is it a different way of formatting your external HDD? At the moment I have my 80gb drive formatted 20 approx 29gb and am about to try your script for viewing a second partition. I am wondering the same thing, I have videos, PDF docs and MP3 on my HDD. thanks Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows 2000, XP, Vista. Allows Windoze to recognise drives formatted with EXT2.
Guest lambrettalad Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows 2000, XP, Vista. Allows Windoze to recognise drives formatted with EXT2. cheers for that, how would i format a drive EXT2 ?
Guest MaxiP Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 I've searched through a number of threads looking for the answer to this but haven't found it. Can anyone advise what size drives can be attached to the Vega? I understand that they need to be formatted as FAT32 but can't ascertain the max drive size. I also recall reading that someone connected a drive with multiple partitions but could only see 1 partition. I intend using the Vega as a media player in the car to keep my lads quiet and am hoping that I can attach a decent size drive with a good selection of ripped movies on it. Thanks. Using basic FAT32, I can connect a Buffalo USB HD with single partition of 320Gb, if that helps
Guest cleavepm Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Using basic FAT32, I can connect a Buffalo USB HD with single partition of 320Gb, if that helps Great news - I've got a 500Gb Buffalo portable USB drive so will hopefully get the same result. I'll probably have to reformat it though because I think it's NTFS at the moment.
Guest MaxiP Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Great news - I've got a 500Gb Buffalo portable USB drive so will hopefully get the same result. I'll probably have to reformat it though because I think it's NTFS at the moment. I only got mine to work if it was formatted as FAT32 with 32k clusters - I used Easeus partition tool (http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm) Also, saw this on flea-bay but no idea what it is like - QUICK RELEASE CAR HEADREST MOUNT HOLDER FOR ADVENT VEGA
Guest dfghggfgfd Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 Can anyone advise what size drives can be attached to the Vega? I understand that they need to be formatted as FAT32 but can't ascertain the max drive size. I just tried a 500GB HDD. Formated with FAT32 it wouldn´t mount it automatically, and although I can see the HDD in /dev/ I also can´t mount it with a script. Using EXT2 it wouldn´t mount automatically of course, but I can mount it with a script with full r-w-access.
Guest thedicemaster Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 for that specific script the 1st partition must be ext2. it's actually best to format the entire drive as ext2. to format it you can just use a linux liveCD(ubuntu) FAT32 might not work, some people have had problems with larger partitions. also, blu-ray rips of over 4GB won't work on fat32, but will on ext2
Guest cleavepm Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 I only got mine to work if it was formatted as FAT32 with 32k clusters - I used Easeus partition tool (http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm) Also, saw this on flea-bay but no idea what it is like - QUICK RELEASE CAR HEADREST MOUNT HOLDER FOR ADVENT VEGA Useful info - thanks - I'll make sure I use 32k clusters. Have had that headrest mount on my watchlist for a couple of weeks now. I have a Vogels mount for a portable DVD player which fits in a similar way. Very safe in the car. Will almost certainly get this in the next few weeks - am off to Devon for ½ term so can try it out then ;)
Guest warriorscot Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 (edited) With the new Kernel you have Ext4 support so you could use that in theory as well. The limits of FAT32 can be looked up on wikipedia. One of the Ext filesystems is the best bet. You can use linux either from a live CD, virtual machine installation or a real install to format the drive. Although there are windows tools for it too. Edited February 2, 2011 by warriorscot
Guest cleavepm Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 With the new Kernel you have Ext4 support so you could use that in theory as well. The limits of FAT32 can be looked up on wikipedia. One of the Ext filesystems is the best bet. You can use linux either from a live CD, virtual machine installation or a real install to format the drive. Although there are windows tools for it too. Think I'll be going with EXT2 by the sounds of it. Just checked out the thread re the new kernel but it sounds like it's got a few issues. Being a noob I think I'll play it safe for now.
Guest thedicemaster Posted February 2, 2011 Report Posted February 2, 2011 downside of ext4 is little to no support under windows. ext2 works better under windows.
Guest cleavepm Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 downside of ext4 is little to no support under windows. ext2 works better under windows. I'm sure that will change though.
Guest thedicemaster Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 ext filesystem support for windows is going quite slow. even ext3 is barely supported(actually so badly, that it's no better than ext2)
Guest cleavepm Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 ext filesystem support for windows is going quite slow. even ext3 is barely supported(actually so badly, that it's no better than ext2) And they call it progress.....
Guest dbaseii Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 (edited) I've searched through a number of threads looking for the answer to this but haven't found it. Can anyone advise what size drives can be attached to the Vega? I understand that they need to be formatted as FAT32 but can't ascertain the max drive size. I also recall reading that someone connected a drive with multiple partitions but could only see 1 partition. I intend using the Vega as a media player in the car to keep my lads quiet and am hoping that I can attach a decent size drive with a good selection of ripped movies on it. Thanks. [/quote I would like to know how large the sd card can be. I want to use a 16gb card Edited February 3, 2011 by dbaseii
Guest cleavepm Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 Can anyone advise what size drives can be attached to the Vega? I understand that they need to be formatted as FAT32 but can't ascertain the max drive size. I also recall reading that someone connected a drive with multiple partitions but could only see 1 partition. I intend using the Vega as a media player in the car to keep my lads quiet and am hoping that I can attach a decent size drive with a good selection of ripped movies on it. Thanks. I would like to know how large the sd card can be. I want to use a 16gb card Cards can be 32Gb max I believe
Guest thedicemaster Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 32GB actually.(32Gb=4GB) anything larger is SDXC, and makes use of a microsoft-only filesystem.
Guest dfghggfgfd Posted February 3, 2011 Report Posted February 3, 2011 downside of ext4 is little to no support under windows. ext2 works better under windows. You can simply install Linux in a Virtual Machine and transfer your files in the VM. BTW: EXT3+4 is basically EXT2 + Journaling. You won´t really need journaling on a removable drive, so it´s maybe better to use EXT2 anyway, as the Journaling of course slows down writing-operations.
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