Bryston BDP1- loading problem

If you are saying that the drives with which you had the problem are bus-powered (as opposed to having their own ac power supply), did you have them connected to the BDP-1's REAR USB connectors, as indicated on page 5 (pdf page 8) of the manual?

Regards,
-- Al

I think that it might be worth investing a few dollars to try a usb y-cable such as this one, connecting the two larger connectors to both of the BDP-1's rear ports. If the two rear ports are independently powered (you might want to ask James to confirm that), doing so would double the amount of power that can be provided to your hard drive. I'm still suspicious about the possibility that the drive may be marginally powered, even though it supposedly should work when connected to a rear port.

Alternatively, if you have one readily available you might try connecting the drive via a powered usb hub.

I notice that the descriptions of the Iomega SSD drive Cmo is using indicate that it uses significantly less power than comparable mechanical drives.

Regards,
-- Al

Thanks for the update, Jaytea. It's strange that there was no problem with your first drive, containing a considerably smaller amount of AIFF data. Perhaps that gives them a clue, and perhaps it explains why they didn't catch the problem sooner.

Best regards,
-- Al

10-12-11: Dhl93449
Are you not exceeding the file format limitations for FAT32 with those drives? I thought drives of that size require NTFS file systems? Win XP, for example, cannot format a volume greater than 32 GB in FAT32.

The 32 GB limit is just a limitation of XP's formatting capability, not of the FAT32 file system. Third-party partition management programs can create FAT32 partitions having much larger sizes, which XP and other OS's will then be able to read and write.

Based on the conventional standard of 512 bytes per sector, a FAT32 drive can be as large as about 2.19 TB (Terabytes).

FAT32 also has a limitation on the maximum size of an individual file of about 4 GB, which can often come into play in video applications. It is also much more prone to data loss and corruption than NTFS, for instance if power happens to drop out at the wrong instant. A downside of NTFS, though, is that Mac OS's can't write to it without third-party software.

10-03-11: Audioman58
One thing not mentioned was that the card reader in the bdp is only 4-GIGS it is not supposed to store your collection,it's main purpose is to read whatever cd or songs you want from either a seperate HD or thumb drive ...

I have assumed that what the BDP-1 is attempting to do during the excessive amount of time Jaytea has described is to create some sort of index of what is on the drive.

Regards,
-- Al