data disks playable on this machine??? Any ideas?
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It sounds to me like you are talking about burning an MP3 disc, a disc with MP3's burned directly as data files instead of converting them to cd audio files. Yes, in that case you can get a couple of hundred songs on a cd compared to about 20 with a normal audio cd. With this receiver, you can save MP3's and other audio file types on a flash drive and plug it in to the USB port and not have to use any discs at all. I read that other people have been also able to use external hard drives!
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I have excellent results with mine but I'm an MSDOS guy. About Mac, I know nothing. Have you talked to Mustek? Maybe there is a driver that will help. I had a problem with a RAID drive that seems to have been cured with a new driver.
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I am running it on my Vista Ultimate machine and everything is working fine. Only one time did it have an data access anomaly but that was due to a Vista update gone bad, which a reboot fixed. Otherwise I am running a virtual machine off of this drive that I use for development purposes and so far no issues even after some serious rough handling.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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Disks must be faulty, half of the ones I tried to format had the same problem. Return if you can. I just threw them away rather than go through the trouble of packing and paying for return shipping.
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I suggest you look at their website for their supported systems: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/drive_bracket/datadoubler/
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Don't use the disk, just plug it in, and it should work. If not look online for the driver download.
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Thanks Dean, the drive was working so the format is probably OK. When you plug in the USB the charge light comes on but the data side is obviously not working as the drive is not recognised. You can hear the disks spinning but they are very quiet. Thanks again for your help. Regards: Brendan
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The question is more of the interface than the OS. I was unable to use my unit as the SATA interface was incompatible. Check your hardware before your software.
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This will require, memory and a MSata SSD drive to be operational. Then you will have to load an operating system to make it fully functional.
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I had a similar problem with Amazon DVE-R 100 pile I bought.....Think it was just an abberation...but have been carefully buying only DVD+R ever since......also since found they worked as CDs...perhaps just abeled wrong.
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Well, using the WD 120GB External HD should give issues. as of now, it is working fine for me. Try to verify the USB2 Enhanced Host Controller should appear in the Device Manager. If you installed the Dell Notebook System Software at last, this might not work properly. Thanks
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I'm running it with a 4 TB drive right now. Works great. I'm running Linux. It all just worked "out of the box" without needing drivers, Disk Manager, patches, or anything like that. You just have to remember to format your drive with "gpt" partition table, because the default ("msdos") partition table maxed out at 2 TB and will no longer work.
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You should be able to. I was able to reformat it to ext4 for a Linux data drive with no problems.
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I am not an expert on the matter ... Don't know for sure but, I will doubt you can maintain the data as the Drobo needs to rewrite the disc to assure their structure... Not sure if will allow partitions either. Perhaps contacting Drobo directly you might find the right answer
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If it's just data files it should work. The problem is if you have done system files it may not work.
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NO, I'm sticking with the older systems. IOMEGA recommends using their support so you can format disks in the FAT system. Win 2K assumes NTFS system which may be causing your (undefined) problem.