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I've read online that I could connect a hard drive to my iPad 2, so I bought a usb -> 30 pin connector from eBay but it's not working. I'm wondering if someone here got it working with XBMC.
Thanks!
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Thanks for your swift reply, Ned Scott, but it appears I have the basic problem that the hard disk does not spin up. I'm using a WD Passport 80GB drive. What components have you been using?
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flxfxp Wrote:Thanks for your swift reply, Ned Scott, but it appears I have the basic problem that the hard disk does not spin up. I'm using a WD Passport 80GB drive. What components have you been using?
Make sure your hdd is fat32 formatted as the iPad can only read fat32.
Also, the hdd has to supply its own power, or iOS will reject it.
You can remedy the issue by plugging the Hdd into a powered USB hub and the hub to the ipad.
Some of the hdd will not automount in iFile, so you have to run the command in terminal (I use iSSH)
sudo mkdir /var/mnt/mount1
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /var/mnt/mount1
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2012-04-28, 18:03
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-28, 18:03 by Ned Scott.)
(2012-04-28, 12:34)Hardz Wrote: Will this do the job?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-New-iPad...000wt_1002
It should work. I know some cheap 3rd party video cables can lose compatibility with iDevices due to OS updates, but I've never heard anything about that happening with the memory/usb readers. Even if it did, there would probably be a jailbreak option to make it work again (like there is for previously mentioned 3rd party video cables).
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Can anyone with an iPad 3 tell me if those 30 pin to sd card adapters are compatible? In the item descriptions it only lists iPad 1 and 2.