topic Bus powered portable harddrive struggling to connect in Tablets https://community.sony.no/t5/tablets/bus-powered-portable-harddrive-struggling-to-connect/m-p/248320#M3814 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Community,</P><P></P><P>i'm pleased to have been helped out on this forum in that someone told me how I can play media from an external source using a file manager.</P><P></P><P>Now I'd like to throw the problem out there that... my 500Gb Seagate portable drive starts up when connected and a usb notification pops up! great stuff... but it soon struggles (3secs) and splutters leaving the tablet unable to maintain a connection. </P><P></P><P>Has anyone else connected something other than a usb stick to it? Is the problem because its bus powered and microusb cant handle it? </P><P></P><P>I know I need to find something else to test as it might be the ebay microUSB to female USB transformer i've recently acquired. </P><P></P><P>Many thanks </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:54:52 GMT chongsta.uk 2011-09-21T20:54:52Z Bus powered portable harddrive struggling to connect https://community.sony.no/t5/tablets/bus-powered-portable-harddrive-struggling-to-connect/m-p/248320#M3814 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Community,</P><P></P><P>i'm pleased to have been helped out on this forum in that someone told me how I can play media from an external source using a file manager.</P><P></P><P>Now I'd like to throw the problem out there that... my 500Gb Seagate portable drive starts up when connected and a usb notification pops up! great stuff... but it soon struggles (3secs) and splutters leaving the tablet unable to maintain a connection. </P><P></P><P>Has anyone else connected something other than a usb stick to it? Is the problem because its bus powered and microusb cant handle it? </P><P></P><P>I know I need to find something else to test as it might be the ebay microUSB to female USB transformer i've recently acquired. </P><P></P><P>Many thanks </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:54:52 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/tablets/bus-powered-portable-harddrive-struggling-to-connect/m-p/248320#M3814 chongsta.uk 2011-09-21T20:54:52Z Bus powered portable harddrive struggling to connect https://community.sony.no/t5/tablets/bus-powered-portable-harddrive-struggling-to-connect/m-p/248321#M3815 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hmmmm. That is going to require a good chunk of power and the USB port on the Tablet does not have that much of an output to maintain drives especially of that size. I will give mine a go 320gb to see if there is any change. I suspect it will yeild the same results.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:24:10 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/tablets/bus-powered-portable-harddrive-struggling-to-connect/m-p/248321#M3815 Watashiwateshdes 2011-09-21T21:24:10Z