| Drivers for USB HDDs... [message #62902] |
Wed, 11 January 2006 15:02  |
Kim
Messages: 1246
Registered: October 2005
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I wasn't sure how to describe this in the subject heading...
I've been on a bit of a project to get myself a DVD player to use as an MP3
player for the main stereo. To save myself the trouble of setting up a media
computer. Anyhow I was going to just buy a cheapo DVD player and be done
with it...
....but I got to the store and this DVD recorder caught my eye. It was only
$180 (no doubt that's not the cheap in the states but it's pretty good here)
and what I particularily liked was that it has a firewire and a USB port
on the front. Unfortunately nowhere in the manual does it tell you what you
can plug in to the USB port. I think the firewire only works with DV cameras.
I already tested the USB port with a USB memory stick and it worked perfectly.
What I'm wondering is, is there a difference between the driver for a USB
memory stick and a USB hdd. I had a feeling that I'd heard somewhere that
they both appear on your computer as the same device type.
I'm trying to work out whether the fact that the USB stick works means inherantly
that a USB hdd will work, or whether I'm going to have to try one.
If I can get this box to play MP3's off a USB hdd I'll be stoked.
Maybe I'm just going to have to buy an external USB case and try my luck...
Cheers,
Kim.
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