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Author Topic: Why won't USB drive mount? Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-12-2013 06:59 PM                        Mike, have you tried putting the program you're trying to copy on the 2TB drive that is known to mount? Try that.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-12-2013 09:53 PM                        Haven't done that but I'm sure that would work -- I've used those drives for lots of other stuff in the past. I'll definitely try it for the next matinee we do though. Justin - thanks for the list, I might just do that. I don't create a LOT of DCPs but I can see myself doing more of them in the future. The biggest problem is finding the time to do it!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-13-2013 05:20 AM                     Or...just add a 1GIG NIC to your computer (pick a brand) and just FTP the content over on the "Media" network. It is faster than CRU load and many time faster than the USB. Finally, you'd skip the extra step of moving from computer to external drive.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-13-2013 02:14 PM                        We have the T.M.S. program for our theatres that allow us to do this. I have created several D.C.P.s on the T.M.S. computer and transferred them over to the screen I wanted to play the film on. I guess since you are a single screen, you don't have that luxury. Great to know, since we are installing a G.D.C. into a single screen here in a couple of weeks.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 08-13-2013 03:08 PM                        Steve: I'm intrigued by this FTP solution. I already have a 1gig NIC on my office computer which is wired into the dcinema network. Can I FTP into the Cinedigm LMS or directly to the GDC servers?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-13-2013 04:26 PM                     What Steve said... Big time saver! And you might already have a GB NIC in your down stairs computer.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-13-2013 08:01 PM                        Well we'll have to figure that one out!  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 03-28-2019 03:26 AM                 It has been 2052 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Peter Castle Expert Film Handler Posts: 220 From: Wollongong University, NSW ,Australia Registered: Oct 2003 posted 03-28-2019 03:26 AM                     Sorry for digging this up again. I just tried a brand-new SSD drive of 260GB and it failed to connect. It's format says ExFAT. Is that the problem? I don't want to change it to EXT format as most PC/Macs have trouble reading that. Should I just change it to NTFS?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-28-2019 05:26 AM                     ExFAT is only supported by Dolby DSS servers. Do not use it. ext2/3, or NTFS. Macs can read NTFS natively, and write with some third-party tools (Tuxera/Paragon). Third party tools are also available for both Mac and Win to support ext2/3, though. For a 'local' usage scenario, NTFS is probably the best choice, if you do not work in Linux anyway. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-28-2019 10:11 AM                        Added to which, exFAT support was only added to DSS servers quite late in the day. I can't remember the exact version, but I think it was 4.8. If so, that would explain why Peter's DSS100, presumably running 4.7 (the final version that worked on a 100) can't read it. Agreed with Carsten that if your server is a DSS, you do your computing on Windows, and you don't need to send your DCPs to anyone else, NTFS is your best bet. Alternatively, you could connect your PC or laptop to the same management LAN as the DSS and send your DCPs into it over the wire using FTP, thereby avoiding the need to use physical media at all.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-28-2019 10:26 AM                     Seems odd since you do this quite often. If you have never used these drives before the first thing to do is try one you know worked ok in the past. Mark  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-28-2019 11:49 AM                     I know about the DSS exFAT support for quite a long time, as it was quite unusual, and I remember it specifically because there is a 'DCP Tutorial' somewhere on a film-making site recommending exFAT for DCP Transfer...they were just lucky with a specific site using a DSS. A quick search through the Dolby release notes tells me it was added in 4.7.0. That is more recent than I thought. So, users of earlier versions may indeed lack that feature. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-28-2019 12:07 PM                     NTFS formatting works fine on the GDC USB. Mark  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-28-2019 09:26 PM                        The final version of the DSS software that works on a 100 is 4.7.8.7, and so assuming that this is what Peter's server is running, it should be able to read an exFAT-formatted drive. However, there are other reasons why it might not, a GPT partition table and/or an EFI partition on the start being two that spring to mind. For this reason, whenever I'm preparing a DCP drive, I will always nuke the partition table and create a new MBR one, followed by a single (usually ext3) partition occupying the entire drive. If Peter's drive was bought from an Office Depot-type place in retail packaging and then reformatted using the Windows or MacOS GUI file explorer, that would not have touched either the partition table or any EFI partition at the start, which in turn could explain why his DSS100 can't see the exFAT partition. quote: Carsten Kurz ...there is a 'DCP Tutorial' somewhere on a film-making site recommending exFAT for DCP Transfer... They might have got that idea from the popup that appears in the MacOS formatting utility, which gives you the option of HFS, HFS+ or exFAT, and tells you that exFAT drives can be read on any computer under the sun (or wording to that effect). What they actually mean is "recent versions of both Windows and MacOS, i.e. format your drive as exFAT if you want to give it to someone who uses a Windows PC," but that isn't the wording they use.  |  IP: Logged

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