I just purchased a Blaupunkt Memphis mp66 from a current or former forum member. (Not sure which, I bought it on ebay, but he had taken it out of a crossfire, and pointed me to some install threads here...).

Anyway, I got a great deal, lots of extras, it's practically brand new. Install took about 10 minutes.

My question is, the flash drive I tried is a 4 gig Sandisk Cruzer. It didn't work. The head unit was giving me a drive error.

I'm sure there is nothing wrong with the head unit. Before I go buy several different flash drives to try, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? Also, I've read in the manual about folder structure. Does anyone have specific experience with this head unit, in particular, the use of the flash drive and how you have your folder tree set up?

Thanks in advance!

 

I don't have experience with that particular unit but I do recall similar problems with my alpine units usb interface.

In my case the head unit would only recognize flash drives in fat32 format. Unfortunately this format limits you to 32gb if I recall correctly.

I was able to install a 300gb hardrive in my center console by partitioning in 32gb sections.

Folder structure on the alpine unit didn;t matter as you can browse the subfolders.

My suggestion is search online for a manual for the headunit and check the usb format compatibility or if you have some spare time try reformitting your drive temporarily (I seem to recall difficulties doing this with newer versions of windows, and booted up the old win2000 os lol)

 

Hey Shaver... thanks for responding.

I do have the manual. Unfortunately, it's really vague about compatibility. It basically says "they cannot guarantee compatibility blah blah". The one I tried was formatted fat32. Not sure why it wouldn't work since I use it regularly on my computers. I did find an old Memorex drive that worked like a champ, but it's too small to effectively use.

On the bright side, navigating folders and files on the Blaupunkt is a snap. In the test I ran, I could see that, since it does recognize folders, moving through large archives should be fairly quick and painless.

It would be nice to know the brand name and size of a flash drive that someone is currently using with their head unit. If it happens to be on a Blaupunkt, so much the better!

 

Okay, I figured it out...

For anyone else that may have flash drive problems, even though my drive was already factory formatted FAT32, and even though I never had a problem on any computer with the drive, it threw read errors in the head unit. I re-formatted again, and it works great. There may have been some root files I wasn't seeing (ur3 flash protocols maybe...) but all the excitement is over.

Now I can obsess about something else!