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Offline -Sp()()ge-

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More PS3 questions
« on: September 12, 2008, 01:37:52 PM »
Anyone know how to connect a USB hard drive to PS3 and have the PS3 recognize photos, music , and video on the drive? 

Will PS3 recognize legitimate (and legal as I own the DVDs) rips of DVDs that are stored on the hard drive?  The format would be the VOB files.
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Re: More PS3 questions
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 07:48:13 PM »
I have a PS3 and prompted by your post, i hooked up an external hard drive i had laying around.  It looked like it was going to recognize it, then it didn't.  No extra options just for external drives either. 

Some quick googling suggests that the PS3 requires the FAT32 file system and it cannot handel NTFS.  Probably won't get around to trying this tonight, but i do want to play around with it as well.
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Re: More PS3 questions
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2008, 01:03:05 PM »
Quote from: nstuff on September 12, 2008, 07:48:13 PM
Some quick googling suggests that the PS3 requires the FAT32 file system and it cannot handel NTFS.  Probably won't get around to trying this tonight, but i do want to play around with it as well.

Makes sense. FAT32 is readable/writable by pretty much everything, whereas you'll only find full NTFS support on Windows NT based systems.
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Re: More PS3 questions
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2008, 07:14:42 AM »
You also need to have a folder structure in place i order for the ps3 to read the drive.  I think pictures have to be in a folder called PHOTO, videos in VIDEO, and any updates you download go in a PS3\UPDATE folder.  Folders need to be in cap letters also. 
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