[icon-discuss] Re: Anyone Successfully Using Western Digital Passport Drive?
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:42:07 -0500
Hi Larry, yes I did not expect at all that an NTFS drive would work via
USB on ICON. I suggest that the Users Guide be updated with a sentence in
the section on file sharing and for USB disk support stating that NTFS
external drives are accessible through file sharing. . . although it
should be outwardly obvious. . . your note did cause a little light bulb
to go off in my head when I read it just now.
G.
Guido Dante Corona
IBM Research,
Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC)
Austin Tx.
Phone: 512. 838. 9735.
Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.ibm.com/able
". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who
were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who
questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
[David Poyer, The Command]
Larry Skutchan <blindcooltech@xxxxxxxxx>
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If formatted with NTFS, it will certainly not work when connected to the
usb port, but will work
fine through file sharing.
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:52:31 -0500, Guido Corona wrote:
>May the problem of incompatibility also have to do with file format on
the
>drive? Isuspect that if NTFS is used on an external drive, BP and ICON
may
>not be able to access it. Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human
>Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838.
9735.
>Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able ". . . Maybe
it was
>only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to
be
>wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in
the
>end those who came closest to being wise." [David Poyer, The Command]
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>Western Digital Passport Drive? Hi all. I searched the list archives and
saw
>several messages earlier this month and in September, 2007 about people
>using, or struggling to use, the Western Digital Passport drives with
the
>Icon and Braille+. I'm thinking of buying one of these drives, but want
to know
> whether I can expect it to work with the Braille+. If you've had
problems
>with this hardware combination, did those problems persist when the
Braille+
>was connected to AC power? What did you end up using for an external
storage
>solution if you abandoned the Passport due to it being unusable with
the
>Braille+? Thanks in advance! Jeremiah
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