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ivan · 02-25-2011, 06:24 AM

Sjarrel, there is only one thing that will stop the eDGe reading an external usb drive - how the drive is formatted.

I have several usb drives that we use for temporary backup, all of them formatted to HPFS (the OS/2 High Performance File System as all our systems are OS/2) - the eDGe does not see those drives. As an experiment I formatted one to FAT32 and tried that - the eDGe sees it without problems.

It maybe the LaCie people were thinking about the media centre usb drive that I think has a custom front end that will not work with Android. Other than that, like you, I have found that external usb drive formatted with a windows format - one used by windows - will work on the eDGe. I don't know about the PE, not having one, but would assume they should do likewise.

02-25-2011, 06:24 AM	#25
ivan Edge User	Sjarrel, there is only one thing that will stop the eDGe reading an external usb drive - how the drive is formatted. I have several usb drives that we use for temporary backup, all of them formatted to HPFS (the OS/2 High Performance File System as all our systems are OS/2) - the eDGe does not see those drives. As an experiment I formatted one to FAT32 and tried that - the eDGe sees it without problems. It maybe the LaCie people were thinking about the media centre usb drive that I think has a custom front end that will not work with Android. Other than that, like you, I have found that external usb drive formatted with a windows format - one used by windows - will work on the eDGe. I don't know about the PE, not having one, but would assume they should do likewise.