I recently purchased a BDP-1 and have it up and running in my system. I have experienced two problems with storage drives. I am hoping that someone can explain what went wrong so I can avoid the problem in the future.
1. I purchased a 500-gig G-Tech drive from the Apple store. I used the Disk Utility application on my Mac to format the drive as a Fat32 drive. I then copied my music files onto the drive using a firewire connection. The Mac shows all the files are there. When I hooked the drive up to the USB ports on the back of the BDP-1, nothing happened. No "updating" message. Just a "plug in some tunes" message. The drive made a constant clicking sound. When I removed the drive from the Bryston and plugged it back into the Mac, the files are all there. Can anyone tell me why the Bryston did not read the drive?
2. After the failed try with the hard drive, I loaded my music onto two thumb drives (one containing hi-rez files and the other containing 44/16 files). The BDP-1 read both fine. I tried to add additional hi-rez music files to the hi-rez drive. So I shut down the Bryston and removed one of the thumb drives. I then realized I had removed the 44/16 drive. So I plugged the 44/16 drive back into the Bryston, removed the hi-rez drive, updated the drive, plugged it back into the Bryston, and turned the Bryston back on. When the Bryston came back on, it did not recognize the 44/16 drive (the one I did not update). When I took the 44/16 drive out and plugged it into my Mac, the Mac would not read the drive either. I then reformatted the drive and reloaded my 44/16 music. The Bryston read the drive fine and has been reading music from the drive with no problems. Does anyone know what might have caused the failure of the drive?
