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Re: My Alpine 9886 and a 120 GB notebook drive

daveRob — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:46:55 GMT

thanks, I'll try a single cable. if that doesn't work, maybe a Samsung.

Re: My Alpine 9886 and a 120 GB notebook drive

forya — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:24:08 GMT

I am using a Samsung portable HD. It came with a "Y" usb cable so you can plug it into 2 usb ports if you want, but I only use a cheap usb extension cable.

Re: My Alpine 9886 and a 120 GB notebook drive

daveRob — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:22:18 GMT

I have same HU and a Maxtor 80GB HD USB

Getting no where fast

FAT32

Just 1 song in root & 1 folder with 1 double album

DEVICE ERROR

Have a 4:1 USB that is AC powered into 12V adapter

Have power

HDD has two USB conns one labeled "power" other "Power Data"

Tried both in 4:1 "DEVICE ERROR"

Tried "Power" only into 4:1 and "Power Data" into HU "DEVICE ERROR"

HDD works fine either way on my laptop

Help ?!? Maxtor i-800 said not supported on other than listed op systems

Alpine said nothing over 40 GB and relly no HDD, but up to 40 MIGHT work

Dark Ages !

Re: My Alpine 9886 and a 120 GB notebook drive

forya — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:22:47 GMT

Yes, but it seems to take a shorter amount of time. I would say 5 sec.

Re: My Alpine 9886 and a 120 GB notebook drive

TigerHeli — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:53:51 GMT

Does it need to re-index when you power on the HU if you did not disconnect the drive but did shut the power off to the HU?

My Alpine 9886 and a 120 GB notebook drive

forya — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:23:14 GMT

I've been working on this for a while now, and finally got finished last night.

I Have an Alpine CDA-9886 HU and I bought a 120GB notebook Drive (2.5 that requires no ext. power source) to hook to the HU's rear USB port.
The reason that I couldn't just hook this thing up and use it are the folder limitations that Alpine imposes on you (most likely to save on mem space in the HU). Those Limitations are: 100 Folders in the root dir (max), 8 folders deep (max), 100 files per folder(max) and 500 total folders(max).
The tough part about this is, that all of my files are stored on my computer by artist/album/filename.mp3. and I have 1300 artists.

I used a program called Media monkey to sync the external HD to my music collection, and it worked great. I did have to assign Genera's and Ratings to all of my files, but now If I add any new music to my collection, It will automatically add anything I deem "HD worthy" if I assign it a rating for 3.5 stars or higher, and remove anything I lower the rating on below 3.5 stars.

I now have 5 root folders with 114 folders split between them, averaging 83 files in each. I have a total of 8590 songs, 54.4 Gb of music on the drive, out of my 200+Gbs of total music.

When I first hook the Hard drive up it has to index (search) my drive that takes about 8 sec, and only happens when you first hook the drive up. It remembers where you left off, even when you unhook it. When you search for files of folders it is super fast, almost unbelievably so.

The only drawbacks to this are it does not recognize playlists, and I think it plays back in the order that the files were written to the drive (not an issue for me, I always use random and have my folders set up to genera's.)