I'm having problems getting a hard drive to run through the mdi cable. Unfortunately I always get the mdi incompatible screen. I have read other topics regarding the MDI's with hard drives and I'm still struggling. I bought a sea-gate go flex 500gb hard drive (recommended as working on other threads) formatted to FAT32, but still no luck.

Does anyone hear have a hard drive working that can tell me whether the mp3's can sit in album folders or whether they all have to be loose in the parent directory? Also which hard drive.

I've tried three different hard drives now, all different brands and no luck. Starting to wonder if it's the cable or system itself.

I suspect the cable

I have the seagate go flex 500 with a folder for each alphabet letter and sub folders for artist and then album and all read ok.

I also have a seagate goflex (250 gig) formatted to FAT32, I recently found it woukdnt polay anything other than mp3, but once I converted everything it works fine... I have them as individual tracks, but i think it goi=es into folders ect...

mdi incompatible message has never come up.... I would also concur it must be the cable...

I suspect the cable too.

The majority of my music is saved as WMA files on a Seagate drive. I've had no problems at all with the system reading the files or resuming from the last played position, even when the drive has been disconnected and plugged in again.

Thanks for the input all. I've managed to solve it by luck more than anything. I re-formatted the Seagate hard drive again using the same software I used the first time and for some reason it has now worked. Solved