HomeAutomationNerd Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I've got a 256GB Thumbdrive full of music, and I'm trying to get an EA5 to recognize it. With the USB plugged into the back of an EA5, nothing happens. The C4 device simply fails to recognize it. The USB Drive is formatted as exFat (which is the Windows Default) and generally works fine with Linux based devices. In Composer, no device shows up. In the docs, I see this: USB flash drives or USB external hard drives must be formatted as FAT32 devices. That... can't possibly be right. FAT32 is ancient and not even supported by Windows anymore. Even back in 2010, it wasn't possible to format a FAT32 drive via Windows. Is there any option/solution I'm missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-defunct- Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 That is correct. Best thing to do is get a NAS rather than use the USB for a usb drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAutomationNerd Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 I’m setting up files shares on the QNap now. The choice to stick with FAT32 is really unexpected. I would that that’s actually difficult to do, given the broad Linux support for NTFS, exFAT, and other file systems. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyes Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Hi ChrisM I had same issue - I did format mine as fat32 and all was good. Fortunately it was only for music therefore file restrictions of fat32 didn't bother me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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