Hi, you can't use any external USB drives on the PK because it doesn't have a USB port for these things. However if you want to backup your flash drive you can do this to a CF card. I do this with both my PK and MPower and I'm not sure what size the card is but I can backup both flash drives to this one card. I just put them in differant foulders and name them PK backup and MPower backup.
Hope this helps, >From Shaz. BN QT MPower and PK user ----- Original Message ----- From: "alice dampman" <[email protected]> To: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]>; "'Alex Hall'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again Hi, If you use an external hard drice, can you back up all the things on the flash disk, like the address book and it's contents so that if disaster strikes, you can put all that data on another BN? Will this work with a PK? Is there enough power? I assume you need some kind of converter because there is no USB port on the PK? Thanks. Alice [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]> To: "'Alex Hall'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:54 PM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again > Hi Alex, > Actually, from my research, when USB devices are first connected to a host > (such as BrailleNote), it will start out with 100 milliamps. When the host > says to switch to higher power, then it will switch to maximum power > output > - 500 milliamps. A USB hub, regardless of number ports, is supposed to > provide a total of 500 milliamps. For instance, a four-port UsB hub can > use > 100 milliamps to power itself, plus 4X100 milliamps for devices connected > to > it. > I think in theory, USB hubs with devices attached will work with > BrailleNote. Most come with UsB plus an aC adapter for power. > Cheers, > Joseph P.S. if it is not FAT, try using a drive format software to convert > it back to fAT32. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:32 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: re: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again > > Not a hub, but an external drive? Sure! Mine is a 320gb Seagate > that works perfectly. If you have a hub it should work. Both > ports can put out 500 milliamps between them, but, as I > understand it, one port could put out 500 and the other can be > inactive, or one can give 200 and the other 300, and so on (I > assume this from the wording of the manual). Therefore, the one > working port on your machine should give you the power required, > and all you need is the hub to give you both ports (data and > power). Hope that makes sense! > > Have a great day, > Alex > >> ----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Nicole B. Torcolini" <[email protected] >>To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected] >>Date sent: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:19:59 -0700 >>Subject: [Braillenote] External Hard Drive Again > >>Some of you may remember that I got an external hard drive for > Christmas and >>was trying to hook it up to my Mpower 7.5. At the time, I gave > up because >>the bn could not provide enough power, one of my USB's being > broke. I now >>have a USB hub. 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