Tillude Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Oke i have been reading that people got irritated by the fact the there hard-drives connected to a f-series device dont automaticly mount. Iin other words they have reconnect the hard drive to the usb after the avic has booted. I also got this problem and tommorow im gonna see if my fix wil help this problem. What did i do. i used the extra power modso that the hard-drive gets enough juice. therefore you must use an Y cable, at the end of the cable i made an addition , i put in an time delay relais which i already had, i set this relais to 10 sec. so when i power up the car the relais waits 10 seconds ( this can be altered) before it putts any power on the hard-drive, after this i does gets connected and recognized. i will put some pics in tommorow and i need to get a smaller relais because the one i got is pretty big for in car use Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tillude Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 oke step by step i did the following. * format a 160GB 2,5"harddrive woth fat 32 (32 k clusters ) * put 100GB of music on it and some movies * Did the power mod, the way to get alternative power into the glove department. * now here comes the tricky part. The Y -USB cable, at the side of the smale USB plug i cut the cable in to two, the USB cable has 4 cable in it red, black, green & white. The green and white cables are the data cables, i didnt wanna mess with the data so i did solder them again. the red and black are +5v and mass, i did extend them and connect them to a timer relais. http://www.finder.nl/en/products/profil ... 85&lang=en * i did set the timer to 30 seconds and connect it back to the usb cable, and to the hard-drive. I did work , when i putt the car on the avic starts and after 30seconds the hard-drive starts to boot, this way the avic will recognize the usb hard-drive without having it to reconnect it every time you put it on. want more info ask ???!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ramon Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 lol that is like wow. So it really works eh. I made post about this but it was totally software where I thought that it was win ce's fault that the cold boot dosnt work. Still though this seems just as good. I will give this a try. I have never heard of these relays before. I am gonna look into them. Thanks for the post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jaguarking11 Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 oke step by step i did the following. * format a 160GB 2,5"harddrive woth fat 32 (32 k clusters ) * put 100GB of music on it and some movies * Did the power mod, the way to get alternative power into the glove department. * now here comes the tricky part. The Y -USB cable, at the side of the smale USB plug i cut the cable in to two, the USB cable has 4 cable in it red, black, green & white. The green and white cables are the data cables, i didnt wanna mess with the data so i did solder them again. the red and black are +5v and mass, i did extend them and connect them to a timer relais. http://www.finder.nl/en/products/profil ... 85&lang=en * i did set the timer to 30 seconds and connect it back to the usb cable, and to the hard-drive. I did work , when i putt the car on the avic starts and after 30seconds the hard-drive starts to boot, this way the avic will recognize the usb hard-drive without having it to reconnect it every time you put it on. want more info ask ???!!! Do you have a link on where I can purchase one of those relays? -Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tillude Posted June 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 i can, but it's from a local shop in the Netherlands, but you can find them at your local electronics shop, just ask for a 12volt timer relais..it cost me about €35,- Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jaguarking11 Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 i can, but it's from a local shop in the Netherlands,but you can find them at your local electronics shop, just ask for a 12volt timer relais..it cost me about €35,- Thanks, I bought a relay online a few minutes ago. Its not the same brand but I hope it works. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
my_black_RS5 Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 i can, but it's from a local shop in the Netherlands,but you can find them at your local electronics shop, just ask for a 12volt timer relais..it cost me about €35,- Thanks, I bought a relay online a few minutes ago. Its not the same brand but I hope it works. Which brand did you get? Link? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tillude Posted September 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 the brand isnt important just look for a timed-relais anything will do Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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