LaCie LaCinema HD Connect Setting Up Connecting USB Hard Drive, About External USB Hard Drives

LaCinema HD Connect

User Manual

Setting Up: Transferring Files

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4. Setting Up: Connecting USB Hard Drive

The LaCinema HD Connect can play files located either on net- work sources (computers, network-attached storage, DLNA/UPnP devices, etc.), or it can play files located on attached external USB hard drive. This chapter will explain how to transfer files from your computer to your external hard drive, then how to disconnect the hard drive from your computer and connect it to the LaCinema HD Connect for playback on your TV (Fig. 30).

4.1. About External USB Hard Drives

4.1.1. Compatibility

In addition to hard disks, you can also connect card readers, digital	Fig. 30
cameras, or digital camcorders with USB Mass storage support.
Hard drives with the following file system formats are supported:
FAT32, NTFS, HFS+/Mac OS Extended (non-journaled), and Linux
file systems.
IMPORTANT INFO: External USB hard drives formatted in HFS+
(journaled) are not compatible.
To reformat in compatible file system, see 8. Formatting External
USB Hard Drives.