compatibility issues with the oppo 95 and ext hd's

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, 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

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.

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?

A further thought. You mentioned having 2TB of music. How big are the drives you've tried? Many computer operating systems have incompatibilities with drive sizes exceeding 2.19TB. I'm wondering if the OS that is running within the Oppo may be having that problem.

Regards,
-- Al