What hard disks work with the USB Audio Interface?
11-16-2007, 03:46 AM
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Although I have not been following this here or elsewhere there is a BIG thread on this topic here:
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80270
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80270
11-16-2007, 03:52 AM
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Would this cable be similar or would it still be injecting power to the car?
11-16-2007, 04:39 AM
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Originally Posted by BigAardvaark' post='495150' date='Nov 16 2007, 07:52 AM
Would this cable be similar or would it still be injecting power to the car?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINDY-USB-Cable-Du...r/dp/B000FKP7XA
http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINDY-USB-Cable-Du...r/dp/B000FKP7XA
You would need something like this, I imagine...
11-16-2007, 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='495164' date='Nov 16 2007, 01:39 PM
I don't think that cable would inject power to the car but where do you plan on plugging in the second USB plug?
You would need something like this, I imagine...
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You would need something like this, I imagine...
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11-16-2007, 06:03 AM
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I'm pretty sure that would work then. I've been holding that solution as a "plan B" since my "plan A" is to find a drive that has a low enough power consumption (on spin up) to allow things to work with a single cable powered from the car's USB interface...
11-16-2007, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='495190' date='Nov 16 2007, 03:03 PM
I'm pretty sure that would work then. I've been holding that solution as a "plan B" since my "plan A" is to find a drive that has a low enough power consumption (on spin up) to allow things to work with a single cable powered from the car's USB interface...
The others on the other board seem to have had success with the The Western Digital Passport range of hard disks. A couple of interesting points:
Even though the hard disk is formatted as FAT32 from the factory, it seems you MUST format it again as FAT32 using the FAT32 format utility from http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/ind...at32format.htm
Why?? Dunno...
Interesting also is that the WD Scorpio drive (as featured in the WD Passport portable hard disk) does have a low power spin up option. I was interested to know if it was enabled by default (it's set with a jumper), so I took the enclosure apart and found that indeed the low power setting was enabled. Still uses too much power on spin up for the BMW unfortunately. I think the BMW must have current limiting circuitry in it to limit to a max of 500mA, as per the USB spec. Why? I don't know, but probably to stop people doing stupid things like using USB mug warmers
I also think that BMW has to make something that works for USB sticks near 100% of the time. If it started supporting hard disks, everyone would phone up saying: I can't get brandX to work, why not? Etc...
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11-16-2007, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by r5gordini' post='495292' date='Nov 16 2007, 02:18 PM
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