Kenwood and USB harddrive (Fixed)
Hit the shops today and got a Kenwood KDC-W6537U headunit and a Maxtor One-Touch III mini 160 GigaByte USB hard drive in an attempt to remove the piles of MP3/CDs from my car.
I've got it all hooked up and working and it's great, but..
At first I formatted the whole 160GB of the USB drive as a single FAT32 partition and just copied my music collection over to it.
I used my Linux 'puter to format the drive because Windows refuses to create Fat32 partions bigger than 32GB.
Plugged it into the headunit and got a 'no music' error.
I reformatted it with a single 32GB FAT32 partition using my Windows 'puter and created the folders by hand on the new drive, copied some music in and it works fine (and sounds awesome).
I'm still playing about so may figure this out myself but my question is -
Is it possible to use the full 160GB on the USB drive for storage or am I limited to using a single 32GB partition?
Edit: Yup, it is
The headunit can only see one partition and should be able to read folder heirarchies just copied across.
There is no mention in the manual of a size restriction on the USB device and I'd not exceeded the folder-depth, number-of-folder or number-of-file limits so I am wondering if there is a restriction to do with the format of the FAT on the partition.
I know 32GB is a lot of storage and I should be happy because I was just guessing the USB drive would be compatable with the head unit (which is designed for use with flash-drives and mp3 players, not USB hard-drives) but I ideally I would like access to the whole 160GB because my music collection is already about 12GB* encoded at 128kbps and I want to re-encode at 256kbps so I can get my whole music collection at CD-quality in a little box the size of a couple of packs of fags - which sits nicely hidden-away in the cubby-hole above the headunit with no exposed cables.
Any clues hints or ideas appreciated to save me going mental trying to work it out.
Fixed:
Created and formatted the 160GB partition in Linux (which can do FAT32 partitions bigger than 32GB) then just dragged and dropped the contents of my music folder onto the drive from Windows. Works fine. Guess it was a just a problem with permissions with Linux being more careful about giving unnecessary access than Windows.
For non Linux users - you can download software that allows Windows 2000/XP/Vista to create big Fat32 partitions, Microsoft just crippled those versions of Windows to force you to use NTFS on big drives which can be more efficient but is not compatible with a lot of non-microsoft systems (coincidence? - you decide
).
Hit the shops today and got a Kenwood KDC-W6537U headunit and a Maxtor One-Touch III mini 160 GigaByte USB hard drive in an attempt to remove the piles of MP3/CDs from my car.
I've got it all hooked up and working and it's great, but..
At first I formatted the whole 160GB of the USB drive as a single FAT32 partition and just copied my music collection over to it.
I used my Linux 'puter to format the drive because Windows refuses to create Fat32 partions bigger than 32GB.
Plugged it into the headunit and got a 'no music' error.
I reformatted it with a single 32GB FAT32 partition using my Windows 'puter and created the folders by hand on the new drive, copied some music in and it works fine (and sounds awesome).
I'm still playing about so may figure this out myself but my question is -
Is it possible to use the full 160GB on the USB drive for storage or am I limited to using a single 32GB partition?
Edit: Yup, it is
The headunit can only see one partition and should be able to read folder heirarchies just copied across.
There is no mention in the manual of a size restriction on the USB device and I'd not exceeded the folder-depth, number-of-folder or number-of-file limits so I am wondering if there is a restriction to do with the format of the FAT on the partition.
I know 32GB is a lot of storage and I should be happy because I was just guessing the USB drive would be compatable with the head unit (which is designed for use with flash-drives and mp3 players, not USB hard-drives) but I ideally I would like access to the whole 160GB because my music collection is already about 12GB* encoded at 128kbps and I want to re-encode at 256kbps so I can get my whole music collection at CD-quality in a little box the size of a couple of packs of fags - which sits nicely hidden-away in the cubby-hole above the headunit with no exposed cables.
Any clues hints or ideas appreciated to save me going mental trying to work it out.
Fixed:
Created and formatted the 160GB partition in Linux (which can do FAT32 partitions bigger than 32GB) then just dragged and dropped the contents of my music folder onto the drive from Windows. Works fine. Guess it was a just a problem with permissions with Linux being more careful about giving unnecessary access than Windows.
For non Linux users - you can download software that allows Windows 2000/XP/Vista to create big Fat32 partitions, Microsoft just crippled those versions of Windows to force you to use NTFS on big drives which can be more efficient but is not compatible with a lot of non-microsoft systems (coincidence? - you decide
).