Ok I'm starting to get a bit frustrated here. I recently bought the Galaxy 3.5" hdd enclosure Tvisto so I can watch my videos on my T.V.
I browsed this site and read some other threads about Tvisto but they never solved my problem.
The Problem:
Tvisto requires the hard drive to be set on Master in order to show up on the T.V. They say to format the hdd on my computer with the Master jumper setting. Problem is that with the hdd on master, my computer does not recognize it.
I have tried multiple settings and have found out that the drive needs to be set on slave or cable select in order for it to appear on my computer to be formatted and to have files added.
So I thought hey, I'll just set it to slave and format it, then put files onto it. I can just set it back to master in order to plug it into the T.V. Ok, that seemed to work, until I tried to play it on the T.V. The menu of Tvisto shows up but there are no files found. I can't even find the firmware files that I put onto the firmware folder to update.
To quickly sum up:
1. Tvisto drive requires master setting to show up on T.V.
2. Drive won't show up on computer unless it's on slave/cable select jumper setting.
3. Formating it on slave, then switching to master to watch on T.V. doesn't work.
Any help would be appreciated and sorry for the long post. Thanks
just a thought ... are you using the right file system to format?
In order to use a 250 gb drive through the usb port on my dvd player, the disk had to be formatted in fat32
If you do have to reformat in Fat32 from NTFS, try using "swissknife" software (available free online - do a search)as it will complete the format in a few minutes
All external drives I know of, require the jumpers set to "master" so I don't think that is your problem.
Quote:Hard drives incompatible with Tvisto! May. 2007 posted
Following 3.5" hard drives have been found to be incompatible with Tvisto, which Western Digital launch out in the market on Apr. 2007:
WD2500AAJB, WD3200AAJB & WD5000AAKB
Note: If installed in the Tvisto media player, these drives are recognized when connected via USB but can not be recognized or used when connected to the TV. The only solution available at this point is by replacing the hard drive with a different make or model. We will resolve the issue in next firmware!
I don't know the drive model you are trying to use however if it is one of these three drives a firmware update may fix your issues. My guess is the drive takes longer to spin up and initialize itself and the TVisto firmware does not see the drive properly.
