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compatibility issues with the oppo 95 and ext hd's

Wondering if anyone else has encountered this or has any suggestions. I tried two "pro audio" hard drives: the latest from glyph and avastor. Both have internal power supplies and will allow me to use my synergistic research hologram a power cords. However, the oppo is not compatible with the latest oxford chipset. Has anyone had any luck using a quality hard drive on the oppo 95? Oppo said they tested the 95 using western digital and hitachi before release. Very dissapointing in an otherwise fine piece.
srz888
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Please excuse my typos above: the go-back-to-edit operation here doesn't work with my Android Color Nook for some reason.

Thanks, Al, for the tips. I would certainly like to believe some clever folks will figure out work-arounds and, maybe, simple mods that might disinhibit the Oppo and make it more like the Volks-solution I have in mind. Personally, I'd like to see something from Oppo stripped back to transport/media player function, not unlike the BDP-83 offshoot they had out before. I remain skeptical about that ESS-based platform, however, mods or no mods. But I expect I could live with that, if just for
the SACD's.

It has been one slow evolution to get this far with hi-rez in the audiophile realm from SACD's and DVD-A's introduction, compared to the state of things in the pro, and even the pro-sumer market. 15-year-old kids with guitars and an interest in recording were basically beating the pants off audiophiles for years when it came to such things as lower jitter Firewire and Expresscard interfaces, and receiving asynchronous data streams.
srz888 OP
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Al, thanks for the suggestions. All were tried without any success. Oppo claims they only found out about the incompatibility after being told by end users. I am left to wonder why their 'audiophile' piece - the bdp 95 - was tested using hard drives never meant for audio. It is absurd. I know of others who have tried the latest audio grade hd's without success. I'm going to have to try and get a two year old model from glyph or avastor in order to play my 2TB of digital music. really I can't believe it. I know someone who notified oppo of this 4 months ago and still no firmware update. Ugh. Gonna have to go back to lp's.
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almarg
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Srz888, thanks for the update. Sorry to hear that.

With respect to my previous post, I should clarify for others who may read this that the reference to the NTFS drive format being preferable to FAT32 refers to the fact that NTFS has far less susceptibility to corruption and data loss, which may be caused for example, in the case of FAT32, by a power dropout. NTFS also does not have FAT32's 4gB limitation on the size of an individual file, which can be significant with some kinds of video files. However, those using Mac's should be aware that Mac's require third party software to be able to write to NTFS drives.

Regards,
-- Al
srz888 OP
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Al, thanks for the suggestions. All were tried without any success. Oppo claims they only found out about the incompatibility after being told by end users. I am left to wonder why their 'audiophile' piece - the bdp 95 - was tested using hard drives never meant for audio. It is absurd. I know of others who have tried the latest audio grade hd's without success. I'm going to have to try and get a two year old model from glyph or avastor in order to play my 2TB of digital music. really I can't believe it. I know someone who notified oppo of this 4 months ago and still no firmware update. Ugh. Gonna have to go back to lp's.
srz888 OP
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Ooops. Didn't mean to re-send that last one. Good points on the formatting, Al. Has anyone had success with the 95 and a quality hard drive that is not a discontinued model?
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