Random Tech Tidbit
I purchased a Belkin USB Anywhere last week with the intention of using it to connect a flash card reader to a USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure. It's a simple device that is basically designed to connect to portable storage devices and copy all of the data from one device to the other.
The USB attached card reader from belkin attached smoothly and worked happily. The USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure refused to communicate with properly with USB Anywhere device though. After many different configurations and reformatting the hard drive repeatedly, I determined that there is one important note that was left out of the user manual of the Belkin USB Anywhere -- it is only compatible with FAT32 drives. If you're attempting to use a drive that has been formatted as an NTFS drive, you'll need to reformat the disk.
Once the drive was formatted properly, it worked perfectly. I can now happily drop flash memory cards into the reader and with the press of a single button, download all of the files onto my hard drive.
posted by Marc Baron @ 11:11 PM
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One more addition: The hard drive's FAT32 partition must be no larger than 32GB.
My Belkin USB Anywhere would not initially recognize my portable USB Seagate 100GB hard drive, which was shipped from the factory with one 100GB FAT32 partition. After I partitioned the drive and made the first partition 32GB, the USB Anywhere recognized and worked properly with the hard drive.
This bug appears to be related to the fact that Windows will not normally format a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. Of course, it can be done by the manufacturer or with software, but the USB Anywhere does not appear compatible with such partitions.
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