05-28-2011, 07:36 AM
Most DVD/Blu-ray players with USB ports don't support hard drives (yet) and if they do, they typically will only support DOS (FAT 16/32) volumes.
'Did a bit of Googling and found lots of complaints about lack of NTFS support on that device, suggesting to me that it's subject to the FAT-only limitation.
If there's nothing valuable on that hard drive at the moment, try erasing it in the Disk Utility with a MS-DOS (FAT) volume format before connecting it to the Sony player.
*Note that the maximum file-size on a FAT volume is 4GB, which is not big enough for an uncompressed video DVD rip, but should be fine for most MP4/M4V files.
'Did a bit of Googling and found lots of complaints about lack of NTFS support on that device, suggesting to me that it's subject to the FAT-only limitation.
If there's nothing valuable on that hard drive at the moment, try erasing it in the Disk Utility with a MS-DOS (FAT) volume format before connecting it to the Sony player.
*Note that the maximum file-size on a FAT volume is 4GB, which is not big enough for an uncompressed video DVD rip, but should be fine for most MP4/M4V files.