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Author Topic: Using USB Stick with Barco Communicator Touch Panel Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-14-2012 10:48 AM                     I've got USB "thumb" drive wackiness. I've got 2 USB sticks. My Barco (DP2K-32B) recognizes one of them. It doesn't get the name of that drive correct -- instead, it refers to it as "USB sdb1" -- it will save things to that drive, but then I don't see any of those files when I try to use that same drive on my computer (Windows 7). And then I've got another thumb drive that the TP doesn't recognize at all -- I tried formatting it as NTFS, FAT32 and FAT -- and the drive works fine on my computer, so I know it's not "dead" or anything. What's going on here..?  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-14-2012 12:28 PM                     What brand of sticks? Do they have any preloaded software on them, like a security password file? (Sandisk has those files.) If so, that may be interfering. Try a different brand of USB if need be. Steve Guttag does a lot of Barco IIRC so send him a PM if he doesn't reply here.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-14-2012 02:54 PM                     The two that I've been using are both different brands (Kingston and Logicalis) but I suppose they could have been manufactured by the same firm. (FWIW, they are also different capacities.) Neither seems to have any software installed -- The 2nd one shouldn't because I completely erased and reformatted it several times (trying the different formats FAT, FAT32 and TCBY -- I mean NSFW -- no, no -- it's NTFS.) I'll bring in another brand (Sandisk) from home and see what happens. I'm hoping that Steve (or others) will answer here -- that way this thread isn't left dangling. I can wait a day or two.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 08-14-2012 03:13 PM                        Sticking my oar in here even though I know nothing about it: What about EXT2 or EXT3 format?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 08-14-2012 04:11 PM                     I'm thinking the one that doesn't show up at all is using non-standard equipment/drivers that aren't included in the linux build that the barco software uses.  |  IP: Logged Jason Raftery Film Handler Posts: 72 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: May 2011 posted 08-14-2012 05:32 PM                     I've used several flash drives on a DP2K with no issues (all 16GB or lower). Be aware NTFS isn't supported; FAT32 was what our Barco rep suggested and works fine.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-14-2012 08:14 PM                     I avoid store brand drives because the touchscreen is pretty touchy about what it will recognize. I haven't had problems with any name brand ones. You should stick to FAT32, I've found that the drive won't show up otherwise so any huge sticks you use for large files and formatted NTFS or ext2 won't work either. The system will not use drive names, it just shows up as USB0 or USB1 ... or something like that. Recently I haven't used usb drives much on the touchscreen, it's easier to just transfer files direct to/from a PC running communicator.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-14-2012 11:22 PM                     Yeah -- I ended up using the PC -- but I still want to figure out this thumb drive situation -- I'll give it another go tomorrow using these suggestions and report back -- stay tuned  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 08-15-2012 08:57 AM                     Just dig up a selection of new and old usb sticks and test them. I mean, for the purpose, they don't need to be fast or large capacity, so just find one or two that work and keep them for the doremi. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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