Operation Manual

NOXON
8.4 Playback from a USB storage device
An entry for the USB storage media will appear in the main folder of the
NOXON whenever a compatible USB storage device is connected. Se-
lecting this entry will display a selection of compatible partitions. If only
one is available, “Volume 1” is all that will be shown. Once you have
made your selection, the folder structure will be displayed 1:1. Next, use
the usual navigation to select and play a track.
When connecting a USB hard drive, it may take a moment or two for the
NOXON to read the folder tree. After that, the navigation should work as
usual.
Requirements for the mass storage device
The NOXON supports all normal external hard disks and USB sticks, if they can be identified as USB mass
storage devices. You can check this quite easily by connecting the device to a conventional PC or Mac. If the
device appears as a “USB Mass Storage Device” in the Windows Device Manager, by lsusb under Linux or
the Profiler on the Mac, it can also be operated on the NOXON.
It is very important to note, however, that the storage medium must be formatted for FAT32. All other for-
mats, such as ext2, Reiser, HPFS, NTFS or Mac OS Extended are not recognized by the NOXON. We deliber-
ately chose FAT32 in preference to the many other data carrier formats because it effectively represents the
“least common denominator” of file systems, which can be read and written under all operating systems.
To put all misconceptions about FAT32 to rest once and for all: FAT32 can manage larger volumes than
32 GB (in fact up to 4 TB), and is perfectly viable as a simple, frequently implemented file system. It is par-
ticularly useful when interoperability among as many operating systems as possible is required.
Formatting FAT32 Volumes
FAT32 partitions can be created under almost all operating systems with utilities. The only exception is the
FAT's home platform, Windows, which has had an artificially set maximum FAT partition size since the 2000
version. We provide more information about this at http://www.terratec.de/support.
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