How can I connect External harddisk on Sony Tablet S. Using an OTG cable, I can connect Pendrive. But it doesn't detect harddisk
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An ext HDD has to have it's own power supply.The tab ain't powerful enough to run a simple plug and play ext HDD.
vinurohitraj said:
How can I connect External harddisk on Sony Tablet S. Using an OTG cable, I can connect Pendrive. But it doesn't detect harddisk
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I frequently use without problem two different Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB-powered hard drives (p/n WDBACY5000ABK-00) with a Sony Tablet S. I use a Sony SGPUC1 USB cable to connect the hard drives to the tablet. The hard drives are formatted FAT32, which is required for the tablet to be able to access the hard drives; that is, without modifying its kernel.
I suspect your problem is your hard drive is not formatted as FAT32. If that is the case, you will need to format your hard drive as FAT32. Microsoft Windows (any version) cannot format large capacity hard drives as FAT32, so you will need to use a third-party formatting tool.
If your tablet has root access, another option is installing a NTFS kernel module. For information on downloading and installing the NTFS kernel module, read THIS thread. This supposedly will allow the tablet to access hard drives formatted as NTFS.
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I tried to mount my galaxy s as a usb hdd yesturday but the g tablet didn't seem to recognize it.
So I guess this is a 2 part question;
1) what format would the sd card in my phone be I assume it's ext
2) does vegan gingerbread support it?
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If an android device can read your sdcard then your all good. Unfortunately I don't think this is an available feature, yet at least. Gotta mount the card after u remove it from the phone. No USB support for mounting SD in other Droid devices. And most commonly microsds formatted as fat32.
darn. i was hoping that when i plug my phone in to the tablet, it would just recognize it as a normal usb flash drive. guess that isn't the case.
I'm just wondering if the external portable hard drive USB would work on the G Tablet. Or a flash drive USB ?
Yes they do. There are a number of threads in the General section on this. I've used a 100Gb portable hard drive on my GTablet.
ravenv12 said:
I'm just wondering if the external portable hard drive USB would work on the G Tablet. Or a flash drive USB ?
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Yep. The externals need to be powered via AC if they're spinning disks. Flash drives don't.
I've had trouble with an external drive formatted to NTFS. I'm fairly sure that if it's formatted to Fat32 it'll be fine.
argusvision said:
I've had trouble with an external drive formatted to NTFS. I'm fairly sure that if it's formatted to Fat32 it'll be fine.
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External NTFS-formatted drives work fine as long as you only want to read them. Writing to NTFS filesystems using the kernel filesystem module is still, erm, experimental.
See this post to find out how.
ssd drive
Anyone know if ssd drives will work?
I have bought a USB adaptor for the tablet, and have succesfully attached an external hard disk.
I formatted the disk (a 1.5tb powered drive) with a 500gb fat32 partition and it read it ok. I then set the partition to 1.5tb fat32 and the tablet did not see it.
What is the best size to go for, and is there a recommended drive for use with the tablet?
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I have a 2-in-1 USB OTG Card reader. I formatted my 16 GB strontium micro sd card with NTFS. But when I connect the card via USB OTG card reader, phone says "USB card is either blank or format not supported." But it works when formatted as FAT32. Does K900 support NTFS formatted internal storage and external (via OTG) storage. Has anyone tried connecting a portable HDD via USB OTG??
Can't Read NTFS USB...
asratxda said:
I have a 2-in-1 USB OTG Card reader. I formatted my 16 GB strontium micro sd card with NTFS. But when I connect the card via USB OTG card reader, phone says "USB card is either blank or format not supported." But it works when formatted as FAT32. Does K900 support NTFS formatted internal storage and external (via OTG) storage. Has anyone tried connecting a portable HDD via USB OTG??
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Try formatting it FAT32, that'll take care of your problem.
PutUpWet said:
Try formatting it FAT32, that'll take care of your problem.
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i have the same problem...fat32 is working...NTFS is not working...any solution??NTFS is better then FAT32
You can use paragon ntfs&hfs. Get it from playstore. Root access needed. I always use it to access files from my 500Gb external HDD
userone912 said:
You can use paragon ntfs&hfs. Get it from playstore. Root access needed. I always use it to access files from my 500Gb external HDD
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Thanks for your reply. I have not rooted my phone, but it will be useful for my other phone. ... ... ... (I actually download a lot of torrents and I don't want to keep my PC running. I use "Flud" torrent app to download torrents, developed by a xda member.)
The situation
I have a 64GB MicroSD inside a tablet. It is formatted with FAT32. FAT32 is still the most compatible when connecting it to TVs, PCs etc. The card is full too so that's another reason I want to leave the MicroSD unchanged. But I want to download files in excess of 4GB now using taxpayer-funded public wifi (and FAT32 doesn't support large files).
The plan
I want to connect a 32GB USB memory stick to the tablet with a USB On-The-Go (OTG) cable. It will be used to download various Linux ISOs in excess of 4 GB each.
Is this possible?
PS. Yesterday I became aware of https://github.com/Lurker00/Android-fs and installed it, but I still cannot 'see' the files on my USB stick (I formatted with both exfat and ntfs using a Windows 7 laptop). I think this github project is just meant for MicroSD cards, not USB.
Is there a workable solution to download Linux ISOs (in excess of 4GB) on a USB stick using Android 4, 5 or 6?