I do not have an optical drive because I used my last one twice in 2 years so when it broke I've been waiting until I get a LITE-ON bluray burner for ~$50 USD. My 8GB USB flash drive is dead, and my microSDHC cards are useless for this purpose. I do not have a traditional external drive or a spare SATA drive. I do have a 160GB 7th generation ipod classic that I use to hold about 146GB of music that interfaces with my vehicle head unit's USB port via the 30 pin connector so it's nice DAC will decode the music instead of the crappy DAC in the ipod. I have several backups of the music that is on it and periodically format it to move large files.
So, what I'm trying to do is install a distro from an iPod classic, which means I would have to make it a bootable drive. I googled this and all I found were folks that wanted to use an ipod classic as an OS drive and I'm pretty sure that would melt an ipod classic. I just want to select the USB device in BIOS, reboot, and get my new slackware and updated backtrack on those two new partitions I created yesterday. Do any of you have any ideas on how to accomplish this?
i bought the samsung optical smarthub http://samsung-odd.com/eng/
Most people wont need an old fashioned portable dvd read write drive. But i bought this so that i dont need to rip my dvds to play them in the car for my child and dvds are pretty cheap anyway now compared to rental downloads which cost as much as buying the dvd.
This device can wirelessly act as a dvd read or write drive for android or ios devices or laptop or wired to a laptop. When wired to a laptop it acts like an internal drive and network features wont be there. From your android or ios device you can read or write to dvd / cd drive and also to attached flash disk or hard disk. It comes with a home charger but the device is portable enough to take on holidays to use as travel router in hotel rooms which may only gine internet access via ethernet port and this device has an internet port and can act as wireless access point. Multiple devices can access same dvd or cd or simultaeneously access dvd and flash drive. You can also wirelessly connect to DLNA or uPnP devices via this device so any content on it can be played on DLNA TVs for streaming videos. ALso can be plugged into usb ports or TVs to directly play dvds unlike other dvd drives but i havent checked the last feature.
I am thinking of setting this up in my car as a NAS device so that my child can access dvds etc wirelessly or other video files from usb sticks. But the device does not come with car charger. I am looking for a car charger for this, it needs 5volt 4amps via wall charger so will need a similar car charger which is hard to find as its 4amps. If anyone finds a similar car charger please let me know, any help in this regard is much appreciated.
I contacted amazon seller about car charger and he said to RMA the device! I was just looking for pointers for a car charger as i still like the device. Gooled for the charger but just seem to be getting junk instead of 5volt 4amp car chargers. The device comes with a usb cable with double usb ends which i plugged into two 2.1amp car chargers but didnt seem to work by charging via usb port, so will need to look for the car charger 5volts 4amps to charge via the regular charging port.
see youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBvc9sJ6AM
may be something like this will work better for you?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Car-Charger...Inverters_&hash=item589468bf5b#ht_1335wt_1067
silvscorp said:
may be something like this will work better for you?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Car-Charger...Inverters_&hash=item589468bf5b#ht_1335wt_1067
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thanks. will check this out.
anyone played around with usb device support?
e.g. running a mouse and keyboard and external drive from a usb hub?
Ive been messing about and seeing what works, £1.99 adapter from ebay, awesome.
my keyboard works great, as do usb memory sticks, usb micro sd card reader, usb hard drive works with a usb hub for power oh usb hub worked great too. I just tried an old apple usb mouse and thats working lovely.
Also my usb midi adapter appears to work.
Thats all Ive tried so far, but for such a cheap price Im really happy with it
very nice. thanks.
fwiw, what I'm seeking to do is to simultaneously:
- charge the phone
- drive a mouse/keyboard/external hard drive
- drive a monitor (or tv) (just starting to research this one)
essentially turn the phone into my "tower" for some desktop type computing
all this may require some creative cable splicing and fab.
incidentally I'll share this one that I've stumbled across in my travels:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1806589
Hi Guys
In need of some helps on the above issue,I have the nexus 7 jellybeam 4.4.4 and recently download nexus media importer app as i am trying to play films and view pictures from my samsung 3.0 hard drive.i have the standard otg cable and was wondering if this maybe an issue?when i plug the device in it powers and the drive works but can not view anything.if i put my usb stick i can view my files
my nexus is not rooted
thanks
You won't be able to play movies from devices like HDD.
USB port on Nexus 7 doesn't provide enough juice to spin-up platters in mechanical hard drive.
I tried that once also, the hdd was just clicking.
Either move the files to flash drive, or connect hdd through active (POWERED) usb hub - but i am not 100% sure with this on non rooted nexus. It's anyway a bit impractical.
I have just started using the DeX as my daily driver. However the problem that I'm facing is when connecting my NTFS 2TB Portable HDD.
My DeX setup is connecting to 24" monitor using this UGREEN dongle, I use a wired Logitech Keyboard and MX Anywhere Mouse.
I have installed this app to help with NTFS. And when I connect the HDD directly to the phone via the OTG dongle it works fine, take time to show in the app but it does. But when I connect it to the UGREEN dongle, the app opens up and notifies me and asks for permission, the minute I click on allow, my monitor will go black and the HDD will make a clicking sound. I have to disconnect the HDD and the dongle, reconnect the dongle to make DeX work again.
I thought maybe my third party dongle didn't have enough juice to support the 2TB HDD so I went to my local Samsung store and tried on their DeX Station, same thing only difference was that the screen did not go black but the HDD made the clicking noise. The sales rep at the Samsung store told me that DeX only supports 512GB because their phone supports max of 512gb SD card.
What am I doing wrong? Or is 2TB just too much?
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The sales rep at the Samsung store told me that DeX only supports 512GB because their phone supports max of 512gb SD card.
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lol that dosent make sense to me.
what does is probably the power draw from the usb ports might be too much. let me test with different adapters i have that provide power to the HDD.
also the file system might be the issue even if you have the correct libs. try formating to extfat.
heres the proof that the phone can do at least 2tb.
i used a 3.5 regular hdd and sata to usb 3 powered adapter plugged into a usb c multireader adapter that was also powered externally.
i bought and installed paragon software because my 1tb drive appeared right away but not my 2tb. first was gpt extfat and the other gpt ntfs .
i have the latest dex station with me also and can test but i expect it to work since it did on a crappy usb c multi reader.
and here is the proof than an official dex station can also read it.
i have 8 tb and 16tb drives but im lazy. so 2 tb will have to do.
bober10113 said:
and here is the proof than an official dex station can also read it.
i have 8 tb and 16tb drives but im lazy. so 2 tb will have to do.
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Yes but all those are powered HDDs. For me a powered 3tb and 5tb works perfectly well.
The issue is with the 2tb. Like I said when I connect it to my phone via the OTG adapter it works fine but not with the dongle.
I thought it was an issue with my dongle since it's not powered. So I headed to the Samsung store and tried on their Dex Station but it didn't work. Which is strange because the Dex Station is powered.
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also the file system might be the issue even if you have the correct libs. try formating to extfat.
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I have a 500gb portable HDD as well which also didn't work. I formatted it to exFAT. What are the chances that the same drive will work on exFAT?
Wouldn't it still require the same amount of power?
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what does is probably the power draw from the usb ports might be too much.
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so then my original comment still rings true.
maybe you can find a Y cable that has 2 x usb male plugs to draw more power. you can try plugging a phone charger to one of them.
Toshiba 4TB is working on my end.
But I formatted to ext4 ...
hinnn said:
Toshiba 4TB is working on my end.
But I formatted to ext4 ...
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Is it powered or portable?
UserNameComesHere said:
Is it powered or portable?
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Portable, just plug to phone via samsung OTG connector
not sure what connector is on your ext hdd but i was suggesting something like this:
https://www.amazon.ca/Exinoz-Ultra-Fast-USB-Cable/dp/B01M1D96NW
hinnn said:
Portable, just plug to phone via samsung OTG connector
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Yes, if you connect it to the phone it works....it, however, doesn't work on DeX...