compatibility issues with the oppo 95 and ext hd's

Srz888, thanks for the update. Sorry to hear that.

With respect to my previous post, I should clarify for others who may read this that the reference to the NTFS drive format being preferable to FAT32 refers to the fact that NTFS has far less susceptibility to corruption and data loss, which may be caused for example, in the case of FAT32, by a power dropout. NTFS also does not have FAT32's 4gB limitation on the size of an individual file, which can be significant with some kinds of video files. However, those using Mac's should be aware that Mac's require third party software to be able to write to NTFS drives.

Regards,
-- Al

How do they know that the player is incompatible with the latest Oxford chipset if they didn't test it?

Also, just to be sure something simple isn't being overlooked, have your drives been formatted with either FAT32 or NTFS (preferably NTFS, of course)? Looking at the manual for the player, it appears that Mac file systems are not supported.

Finally, it looks like the drives you are referring to probably provide both USB and eSATA interfaces. Have you tried both?

Regards,
-- Al

A further thought. You mentioned having 2TB of music. How big are the drives you've tried? Many computer operating systems have incompatibilities with drive sizes exceeding 2.19TB. I'm wondering if the OS that is running within the Oppo may be having that problem.

Regards,
-- Al