usb hd attached to himedia Q5 pro

[ronald]

Hi

I have a lot of problems with my himedia Q5pro reading my usb attached HD (formatted as ex fat since some HD file's are about 10 gb)
When i put a file extra on the hd himedia is sometimes not reading the disk any more. the himedia is loaded with firmware pro custum Softpedia forum thread (including firmware info): http://www.mediafire.com/file/y6f1dfyzdnf3i3y/update_Q5Pro_%28update%26themed%26Kodi17.2RC1shitty%29_HMD-2.0.3_2017-04-13.093025.zip

Anybody who can tell what's going wrong since this is gonna be very frustrating because the only solution is to format the hd again and again.

Oh ja I have a macbook.

have a nice day

ronald

[Phil181]

I would recommend a thorough check of the hard drive itself with a testing tool (unfortunately I have no idea what works on a Mac). 
Crystal DiskInfo X64 works well on a PC.  Your issue appears to be more from your hard drive than the player.
 
I put plenty of > 10Gb files up to 45Gb in size on external (and internal) HDD but they are NTFS formatted. 
A few of the hard drive companies have software that will format, write and read in NTFS on a Mac if you look.

[Nice Monkey]

Consider using EXT4 for the HDD format. That also should work just fine and as far as I know supported by MAC and Linux based PC"s. Far better than FAT32.

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=576.0

[ronald]

hi nice monkey

using Paragon NTFS for Mac 15 formatting the hd into windows NT seems to work for me until now.