radar007 Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Would a 250 GB external harddrive work on the f900? If not,what would be the max capacity? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CamelTowing Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 2 GB is the max on the F-series Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HiFiSi Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Basically just thumb drives, no hard disks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
asianman35 Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 does the 2gb limit also apply to SD cards? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chriso Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Strange - I plugged a 30GB drive into the F900 USB to grab an image file - worked fine - I haven't tried any music though.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HiFiSi Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 SD cards, the manual says it's limited to 8GB. But there are some people who use a 16GB card with no problems... so really, there's no way to know for sure if something will work or not until you try. As for chriso... that goes for the USB port as well. The manual says 2GB max... but that doesn't mean something bigger won't work. You've just got to try it and see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CamelTowing Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Our rep said he was using a 16GB SD card w/ no problems. No idea about USB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gjas18 Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Just make sure your format the drive to FAT32 before you try it. Most hard drives designed for windows PC's will be formated in NTFS which the F series cannot read. This is probably the reason many people can not get it to work. I would try it myself but all my hard drives are HFS+. Every once in a while having a mac can be annoying. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
intentfire Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 i tried a 4gb Kingston thumb drive formated to fat32 yesterday, no dice. The unit would lock up and restart every 2-3 minutes untill i unpluged the drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
intentfire Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 i tried a 4gb Kingston thumb drive formated to fat32 yesterday, no dice. The unit would lock up and restart every 2-3 minutes untill i unpluged the drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kurtcav337 Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 i used an 8gb super talent flash drive and pulled an image file off of it with no problems.. i have no idea about the format but i didnt change anything from when i took it out of the packaging. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mod187 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 I have a Western Digital WD Elements 500G PnP USB drive. I put about 15gigs or so of mp3's on there, and it ran fine. It took about 3 or 4 minutes for the F900 to find it though. I have only run this drive straight out of the box- I never had to format it. It's only been used with XP and ubuntu. It's at my office right now- I'll have to look at it to see how it's set up. Interesting though. I wish I could power it with 12 volts. I had to use an inverter... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iaf_22 Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 I bought a 32 Gb pen drive. (of course FAT32 format) 95% of the time, it doesn't recognize the Pen Drive, and when it does, it show it as empty. I got a cheap 1 Gb (FAT16 format), and it was recognized immediately. So I would say, it can only read FAT16 formatted USB drive... knowing FAT16 format can only goes up to 2Gb (which makes it the limit of the Avic USB connection). I bought the F900BT mainly for this USB connection, thinking I would be able to connect my portable 80Gb hard drive... i feel cheated. Also Pioneer claim the got the best Product 2008-2009 from EISA Award, with many theoretical functions... but most of their functions are missing on the European version of the F900BT... (Where is the Navgate Feed Program ?? it seems not even released!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HiFiSi Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 It says right in the manual that the largest USB drive you can use is 2GB. You weren't cheated because Pioneer never promised you that an 80GB hard drive would work on the unit. You just assumed it would. I believe the Navgate Feeds program is just about out over there. IIRC somebody showed that they already had the download page up but the link for the download wasn't operational yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mod187 Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 As I said earlier, I got my 500G drive to work, with only about 5G's of music on it. I took it out, and added all of my mp3's on it (about 20G's) and a couple of mpg's (DIVX) and tried it again. This time IT DID NOT WORK. I have not tried to take the video off and see if that changes things, but I will one day. Also, I added music after I had music already on it. I am thinking that you may need to start clean every time, since I am having this other problem (below) I have a Kingston 8G Thumb Drive (Datatraveler) and it's worked fine all along, until I filled it up (there is 305mb free). Now, it still works, but I have to unplug it and plug it back in AFTER the system boots up to get it to find it. Before I filled it up, I would jump in my car, and after about 20 seconds it would start playing. The 500G drive is NTFS- It will not let me re-format to anything else. The 8G thumb drive is FAT 32 My 2G SD card is FAT BTW: My 2G SD card is a Micro SD. I have read in other posts that some are having problems with micro SD- some just reading music, others trying to update. I can do both with no problems. I currently have my Micro SD set up to boot Win CE- with no problems. The SD card is Ativa, and it's connected to a micro to SD adapter. I mess with it more and see if there is a pattern to copying items to make it more reliable... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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