USB Host a 2TB Hard Drive (NTFS)

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thejoker3030

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• May 24, 2011

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Is this possible? I have been reading forums and only catch things here and there
about it but nothing confirming it. I have rooted my xoom and installed the
1.4ghz OC kernel. I have the OTG cable and when I connect it to my xoom with
my hard drive I don't see anything happen. I would appreciate if someone could
confirm if this works or not and point me in the right direction as to how to set it
up.

Thanks in advance

 

RinTinTigger

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Nov 26, 2009

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• May 24, 2011

• #2

i got my USB OTG usb stick working today, thx to @bigrushdog will try a 1tb hard disk toda.

meanwhile, read this:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093720

it should help to clear things up, as you are not the only one with the problem!

 

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sjgosha

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• May 24, 2011

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I can`t mount NTFS on Tiamat 1.4.2
On 1.3.2 and 1.4.0 everything was ok

 

cleblanc92

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• May 25, 2011

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sjgosha said:

I can`t mount NTFS on Tiamat 1.4.2
On 1.3.2 and 1.4.0 everything was ok

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With this my 1.4.2 worked great with a Seagate 1TB external on a USB powered hub:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13337600&postcount=6

Hope the link helps ya out!

 

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sjgosha

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• May 25, 2011

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Thanks for the reply

OK i mount 1 TB NTFS Hard Drive but I can`t mount my 64 GB FlashDrive
the output of /dev/block is nothing

On tiamat 1.3.2 Everything was great

Anybody please check your NTFS flash drive

Btrgs

 

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• May 25, 2011

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sjgosha said:

Thanks for the reply

OK i mount 1 TB NTFS Hard Drive but I can`t mount my 64 GB FlashDrive
the output of /dev/block is nothing

On tiamat 1.3.2 Everything was great

Anybody please check your NTFS flash drive

Btrgs

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Having exact same issue, can mount the powered drive via usb no problem, but usb sticks - no luck

 

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yanic123

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May 1, 2011

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• Jun 4, 2011

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im having no luck

tiamat 1.4.4
3.1

Running NTFS Mount, selecting sda1 to mount and it says:

Attempting to mount
Mount failed...


I am trying on a 2GB NTFS Formatted USB Stick.

I am only testing as I gave my 500gb NTFS External to a friend for the weekend and wasnt having any luck with that either although I havent tested it out with NTFS Mount.


Is there anything else I should be doing?

 

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mradlauer

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• Jun 5, 2011

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In 1.4.4. I was able to mount my 160gb NTFS drive, however it would NOT stay mounted...

I've switched back to 1.4.3. Testing now and it seems to be fine...

After 10 minutes it also unmounted itself...This is an older drive, not sure if its going bad, but it wasnt doing this before 1.4.4

Edit: if I unplug and remount it remounts fine...weird!

Edit2: USB Sticks and memory cards work just fine

 

Last edited: Jun 5, 2011

EwanG

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500px.com

• Jun 6, 2011

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Using the Motorola Camera Connection kit (their OTG cable):

No problem mounting a USB Stick at 16 GB formatted as FAT32 or EXT2

Recognizes the same stick and tried to mount if NTFS, but then "freaks" out (NTFS Mount can't actually mount it as NTFS, and File System gets confused) and is unable to read write.

Does not recognize either of my "self powered" USB external drives (1TB and 4TB) - no /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 appears in /dev/block unlike with the USB Stick.

This is with the Tiamat 3.1 and Kernel 1.4.4.

 

silverfox356

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• Jul 24, 2011

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I heard 2TB harddrives work as well.

I don't have any proof though.

 

fkofilee

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• Jul 24, 2011

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although USB is a preferred power method and a constant output of 5V (around about there)

Sometimes, the xoom is not powerful enough to power self powered hard drives, but if they come with a PSU then youll be fine.

As for Usb Sticks, thats beyond me however i think they may suffer from the same issue.

Remember, the Xoom is battery only and is not designed to be a USB power pocket unlike say, the transformer.

 

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okantomi

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• Jul 24, 2011

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EwanG said:

Using the Motorola Camera Connection kit (their OTG cable):

No problem mounting a USB Stick at 16 GB formatted as FAT32 or EXT2

Recognizes the same stick and tried to mount if NTFS, but then "freaks" out (NTFS Mount can't actually mount it as NTFS, and File System gets confused) and is unable to read write.

Does not recognize either of my "self powered" USB external drives (1TB and 4TB) - no /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 appears in /dev/block unlike with the USB Stick.

This is with the Tiamat 3.1 and Kernel 1.4.4.

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I can verify that my self-powered ntfs 750GB HDD works fine on HC3.2 with the Tiamat Rom 2.0 Manta Ray, when I use the free USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG app. This app also works for my 16GB FAT32 thumb drive.

 

Last edited: Jul 24, 2011