Hi,
I bought My Passport upon receiving advice that it was a great way to carry my mp3 collection for playing through my car radio system. I am using my 1TB Drive and plugging it into the USB port of a Vauxhall Astra Elite.
The radio system is a CD500 model. When putting a normal USB stick in the port - all is good and the music plays fine. When I plug the WD My Passport into the same slot, I get a message saying that the DEVICE IS NOT RECOGNISED. I have re-formatted the My Passport to both format options and have not had luck with either. The USB Stick is formatted to FAT32.
Can someone explain why I cant get My Passport to work ?
Thanks
Ian
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Check the partition type. It probably needs to be MBR, as opposed to GPT.
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The USB port might also not be providing enough current to operate the drive properly.
The MyPassport needs significantly more juice to get it up and running than a USB stick does.
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Hi, Can you tell me how I do that?
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It is MBR, I think Darren might right, getting a dual power cable for it
Will let you know more
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Still NOT working - very disappointed
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So I’m certainly not an expert on the Vauxhall or their Navi systems, but doing some googling, I came across this forum:
http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/?t=7347
Second post in the thread says " Only MP3 players and USB drives
with a sector size of 512 Bytes and
a cluster size smaller or equal
32 kBytes in the FAT32 file system
are supported.
■ Hard disk drives (HDD) are not
supported.
■ The following restrictions apply for
the data stored on an MP3 Player
or USB device:
Maximum folder structure depth: 11
levels.
Maximum number of MP3/WMA
files that can be saved: 1000.
So maybe it just ain’t going to work with any HDD.
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Thanks Tony,
Looks like I will stock up on USB sticks
Ian
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