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00sonoma 
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Looking for info on connecting a hard drive to the USB port on my alpine 9886
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As far as I know, they will play only Jump drives.
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From what the specs say, as long as it is formatted in FAT 16/32 and doesn't draw more that 500mA through the USB, there's no reason it shouldn't work.

I think the power consumption is gonna be your problem, you'd have to use a hard drive with a separate power supply, and that means using an inverter.

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Denision make a 2to1 USB adapter that powers up to 1 amp.

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ok so what all would I need, I have a few laptop and desktop hard drives here, how would I format it? Does it still need windows installed? Would an external hard drive housing work
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lspker wrote:

Denision make a 2to1 USB adapter that powers up to 1 amp.

That would help out a lot, if of course there were 2 USB ports on his radio.

00sonoma 
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Ok is the pink audio int. In wire a -or + input.
I wanna use a wire from my remote start to keep it from bumping
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Mute is negative.   According to Alpine's tech suppport, that unit will play a hard drive.  It must be a single platter drive.  New large laptop drives, (250 and 300 GB) use multiple platters.   It as stated above needs to be formatted with FAT or FAT32 partitions.
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Try one of the USB powered laptop externals. I have the 120gb version of this drive http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8744736&st=western+digital+external&type=product&id=1202648989707 hooked up to my Pioneer. Works great. Those are meant to draw only 5oomah.
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that sounds like what I am looking for . I would rather have a hd instead of my iPod in there

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