alpine 9886 and hard drive through usb
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Topic: alpine 9886 and hard drive through usb
Posted By: 00sonoma
Subject: alpine 9886 and hard drive through usb
Date Posted: November 11, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Looking for info on connecting a hard drive to the USB port on my alpine 9886
Replies:
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: November 11, 2008 at 9:18 PM
As far as I know, they will play only Jump drives.
Posted By: Hornshockey
Date Posted: November 12, 2008 at 12:32 PM
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. ------------- Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while; you could miss it.
Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: November 12, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Denision make a 2to1 USB adapter that powers up to 1 amp.
Posted By: 00sonoma
Date Posted: November 12, 2008 at 10:07 PM
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
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: November 13, 2008 at 6:12 AM
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.
Posted By: 00sonoma
Date Posted: November 13, 2008 at 1:28 PM
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
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: November 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM
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.
Posted By: daburrrninator
Date Posted: November 13, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Try one of the USB powered laptop externals. I have the 120gb version of this drive https://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.
Posted By: 00sonoma
Date Posted: November 13, 2008 at 6:56 PM
that sounds like what I am looking for . I would rather have a hd instead of my iPod in there
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