USB key : supported filesystem

[BleuLluvia]

Hi All

I have a question about supported filesystem by the new model 2007 which are with USB host connector :

do you knwow which filesystem is supported and what is it the maximun capacity??

Fat/Fat12/Fat16/Ext2/ Fat32/NTFS???

512MB,1GB,2GB 4GB more???


many thanks in advance for your replies

Cheers

Bleulluvia

 

[Tell]

I will put my money on FAT32, that's the one that is used for audio mobile devices, so you format the USB for that. It gives you a max single file format of 4GB which is far in excess of what you need for an audio single file.

If you do have a smaller USB try formatting it in NTFS and see if it works. I don't have a fancy MP3 in my car and assume they now use MP3 USB as well.

 

[BleuLluvia]

Hello Tell

it is just to know the technical limitation

like you, I guess that FAT12/16 are supported because most of usb key size are around 2GB (FAT16 limit) but now, you can buy up to 4GB (FAT32), so FAT32 may be or not supported....

About NTFS, I think it is not supported because it is not suitable to automobile case.

I believe that only six folders are supported with 99 tracks/songs for original MP3 CD case then an USB key of 2GB is sufficient to use.

So, if a 2007 orwner is able to reply to this thread (I'm sur, the information is written within the user guide of the car), it would be great !!!

Cheers

Bleu

 

[Tell]

Waves at 2007 owners.... well my instructions for my cigarette lighter FM modular, 3.5 mm socket aux, SD card USB player says format to Fat 32 (my holiday device for rental cars), that's the standard that most PCs use, you just wouldn't format to a lower FAT than that on a PC in any case. It does say don't use NSFT, on your PC you get your right click on the mobile device with the format option... you know all this, so you select FAT32.

Reading on the Altea sites for 2007 it was a bit of a mystery where you plug in the device, it seemed to read that it could be wired within the armrest... hmm. Still I got my cigarette lighter device for all rental cars of the world, so whatever life throws up one can listen to ones music when on holiday. I use Sd cards rather than USB, then I can listen to them on my PDA as well when flying, smart.

 

[Rallye Dale]

 

[Nathanio]

I'm with Tell and would have thought FAT32 would be the supported file system and generally 6 folder deep limit is the norm for std MP3 players. Think i'd prefer the aux in tbh as its far more flexible

EDIT: Just tried to format a Memory stick micro (comes up in same format as a USB thumbdrive) and the only format options are FAT and FAT32. Considering NTFS isn't natively supported by lots of OSs

 

[Tell]

ah, well, right, I was being lazzy, put a memory stick in and XP professional does offer you, NTFS, FAT32 and FAT, but the bottom line will be FAT32. Six sub-directories is ample !. You only require NTFS if you are talking about massive audio files !!!. NTFS came allong with Windows XP, I'm still on FAT32 myself [I think] as far as the drives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS

Max file size 16 TiB with current implementation
(16 EiB architecturally)

Max number of files 4,294,967,295 (232-1)
Max filename size 255 characters
Max volume size 256 TiB with current implementation (16 EiB architecturally)

LOL

So I don't think we have to worry about NFTS for audio , we're talking very big files and very long recording times.... if 2 GB isn't sufficient for MP3. 100 MBs is about an hours MP3 time.

 

[Nathanio]

Yeah NTFS would be overkill for these

 

[BleuLluvia]

Thx ALL for your replies