Talk:USB

Hi everybody. This is just a question about the labels that SPP shows when you enter the "External USB" option. With 1.0 fw the label was just "FAT" and inside it was another label "c:" and inside it the real content of the drive. Now I´ve changed firmware to v. 1.8 and applied the USB share trick, and no label is shown for the two disks i´ve plugged in a USB 2.0 hub. Two buttons are showed (about 30 seconds after boot), but no one of them is labeled. Is it a common failure or have I done something wrong? Suggestions, plz. Thanx in advance, Luis. (L.cazalis 13:07, 6 June 2009 (UTC))
 * This is the same thing I see. On my FAT32 formatted USB devices, such as my thumbdrive, it recognizes the drive label.  But on my NTFS formatted external drives, there is no label.  The USB share trick doesn't affect how the drive names appear on the drive, just on the network.
 * A good hack might be to mount the USB drives inside a directory in the main media partition, maybe using fstab. Then, if desired, a symbolic link could be added to the /tmp/usbmounts to make the drives reappear there.  At least that way the drives mounted in the main screenplay directory would be identified.
 * I think it would also be something we should be to iomega's attention, that some drives don't show the name of the drive when plugged into the USB port even when properly labeled. --JCoug 18:46, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * But mapping the drives via fstab would make hotplug mount them in the selected mountpoint? Or would it demand a reboot or general remount? L.cazalis 21:41, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That's correct. fstab is not for hotplug mountable ones, so that wouldn't work.  May have to look into the hotplug configuration file for an answer.  --JCoug 19:42, 8 June 2009 (UTC)