Is it possible to connect a USB pen drive to ipad 3 via and adapter?

Is it possible, via an adapter, to connect and access documents on a USB pen drive on an iPad3?

Technically, you can use the camera connection kit to attach certain USB drives to the iPad. That said, the ONLY thing your iPad will see are photos or movies that are named with 8 characters and located in a DCIM folder.
So technically you can attach a USB, however it does not work for documents, only photos or videos.
There are some wireless drives out there, the Seagate GoFlex and the iDrive and some others, but definitely with the Seagate it's often just that you can read from or pull from the drive, you can't put your document back onto the drive to get it off the iPad.

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I know this is a common question - but is there a way to connect a USB pen drive to the iPad? (See details)

Basically, I just bought a Nexus 7 after growing impatient waiting for the iPad mini. But the Nexus has a fault, and I'm taking it back next week. I'm wondering whether to get my money back, or just get another - because it's a pretty good device!
My major big thing about it, is that I can plug a USB pen drive into it with a OTG cable and either just stream pictures, documents or movies - or save them to the Nexus for viewing without a dangly wire to annoy me. It's great! However, being an Apple fan - an iPad mini (if it comes out!) would be simpler, because it would sync to iCloud etc. whereas obviously my Nexus 7 doesn't do this at all. The only iCloud factor I can access is my mail. Which isn't a problem, just a prefference.
So, with current iPads - is there a way, without jailbraking the device, to say stream movies to the device through a USB pen drive/external HDD, and save them to the iPad?
I've seen ways on YouTube but thought it was best to ask here.
If this was possible, I'd swap the Nexus for the iPad mini straight away - the Nexus 7 is fantastic! No problem with it, if it wasn't for iCloud, I'd keep that.
Oh, and as a closing question on the iPad mini/Apple Maps - the Nexus 7 lets you download offline maps, and also you have a GPS which is used even when not on wifi - do you think this will be likely on an iPad mini? I can't see it myself.
It's a sad day for me, when I start to think Google may still have the upperhand on 7" tablets, even after the iPad mini is released. I might even wait for the Second generation (if it exists!) - just because I for some reason never like first generation things from Apple.
But anyway, that's a lot of questions and info!
Thanks in advance!

jrburrows wrote:
Ok, fair enough. But since Job's death - Apple's control on leaks has been terrible. I got the new iPhone, and I like it - but it hasn't made nearly as big as an impression as previous ones. Because of the vast ammount of leaks. With the iPad mini leaks, it's 99% sure to come out next week.
Apple uses many manufacturers and it's massive also websites prefer to report on Apple whether true or false because it brings more hits.
Amd by "others" I meant other people on iPads - not other devices/manufacturers. It's possible to do so, I just want to know how. I honestly don't think we'll ever be in a Post-PC era until all tablets allow us to use USB in the way computers do.
No, USB is not the future, you missed the memo about cloud and wireless computing?

How do I connect an external hard drive to iPad 3?

Hi
I was was wondering if it is possible to connect an external Hard drive to iPad 3! I like to watch movies on my iPad3 and 64 GB cannot hold big files.
Thanks

There are some wireless external hard drives that can be used with the iPad.
The Kingston Wi-Drive, which costs $50 for the 16 Gigabyte, and then $30 more for every 16 gigs more. It works by you turning it on and then accessing the files on it from an app that you download on your iDevice. You can access music, movies, and other stuff. No connections or anything, it works like a WiFi connection, you connect to it from the setting on the iPad under wireless networks.
Then there is the Seagate GoFlex, which some would recommend over the Wi-Drive. But this one costs $199 and had 500 Gigabytes of storage. It works the sameway as the Kingston: no wires, runs over its wireless connection. You can actually fit up to 300 HD movies on it.
Another option:
Expand your iPad's storage capacity with HyperDrive
http://www.macworld.com/article/1153935/hyperdrive.html
On the road with a camera, an iPad, and a Hyperdrive
http://www.macworld.com/article/1160231/ipadhyperdrive.html
 Cheers, Tom

Is it possible to connect 2 usb devices to an Airport Extreme?

Is it possible to connect 2 usb devices to an Airport Extreme (either the newest, ac model or the previous model) using a usb hub?

Apple does not provide a compatibility list for USB connected devices, so no one can tell you whether things will work until you try it out yourself.
If both the Iomega drive and HP printer work when you connect them individually to the AirPort Extreme, then your chances using a powered hub are quite good....assuming that the USB hub is functioning correctly.
In other words, make sure that both devices are working when you try them individually connected to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme. If they don't work that way, they won't work with a powered hub either.

How to make my 5.5 genaration iPod act as a USB pen Drive?

Hi,
How to make my 30 GB 5.5 genaration iPod act as a USB pen drive? were i just plug in to my Windows XP PC and it opens a window with what the iPod have inside, just like USP pen Drives.
Or this is impossible and in order do somthing like these i must install 1ª some software like iTunes or other 3ª party software?
I mean other 3ª party software, because iTunes take some time to install, and since what i want is to go to i.e my friends house and the more rapdly possible way make my iPod act as an USB pen drive.
If yes wich 3ª party software?

Read over the instructions given here and try this out:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131
In general, you can use an ipod in the same ways that you would use any other external storage drive with a computer. Whether your computer actually pops open a window when the ipod is connected to the computer depends on your settings, but that should be what happens by default on a typical system.

Can I transfer data from a PC to a Mac mini from a USB pen drive?

I currently use a PC using windows vista, I would like to purchase a Mac mini and need to know if it is possible to transfer data from the intuit quickbooks program to the Mac mini? I have the data backed up on a USB pen drive. I wasn't sure if the saved data would be compatible with the Mac mini from the windows pc.

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/articles/HOW12998
http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/articles/INF12386
Also see:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2038025/the-mac-office-when-quickbooks-for-mac-i s-the-wrong-choice.html

Can you boot a Mac Pro using a USB Pen Drive?

Hello.
Can you boot a Mac Pro using a USB Pen Drive? OS=Windows or Linux or BSD or MacOS... I know it is bios specific on a PC if the option is available. If this is possible, does anyone have a link to instructions?
Thanks,
Scott

Not to get in to an argument over semantics here, but by saying "Windows should boot if you have installed the requisite Boot Camp drivers," you are implying "that the Boot Camp drivers [are] needed for Windows to boot." I was just clarifying your post so people didn't get confused.
As for booting a Mac Pro off a USB flash drive, if you have been successful in doing so, can you share with me your method? I've tried booting of an OCZ Rally2 4GB flash drive and it's never worked on my Mac Pro. It doesn't show up when I hold option down and if I try to boot through rEFIt, I get an error about my Mac's firmware not supporting USB booting (I have the latest firmware installed, too). I've tried GPT and MBR partitions, both to no avail. Booting off USB hard disk drives is no problem though. And I can boot off this flash drive on a Core Duo iMac.
Any ideas?

Booting from USB pen drive is *UNGODLY* slow

Being quite sick of floppies, I decided to install Minimax on my USB pen drive, and it worked fine... But things are going very badly with the boot process. You see, GRUB takes 10 seconds to load, the kernel takes over a minute, and the initrd isn't done loading after 5 full minutes... This initrd is 32 MB, and Damn Small Linux, which is 50 MB, can be copied entirely to my machine's RAM in less than 30 seconds. This absurdly low speed makes booting via USB quite unfeasable.
Now I've got the EHCI controller enabled in my BIOS; in fact, what makes this doubly annoying is that USB2 works fine when I'm booted into Arch Linux, with huge files (e.g. Minimax's initrd) getting written in a matter of seconds. Yet it seems that the EHCI controller isn't doing its thing while I'm booting. What's going on here? I'd really like to get my machine up and running again, the sooner the better...
(For what it's worth, my mobo is a Biostar M7VIG 400, if that's any help...)

Gullible Jones wrote:
Can't do that, Minimax puts the whole damn thing in the initrd.
You sure there's nothing I can do about this? No BIOS update that would fix it, or anything? :cry:
You're saying minimax puts the whole system into the initrd? That is so.. crap. Unlike IDE there's like a max 3 or 4 different usb1.1 controllers out there, and I've only seen about 2 usb2.0 controllers out there, so it's soo much more feasible to have it boot up and mount the usb drive.
I mean, that's just lazy compared to most liveCDs which boot and have to load thirty something IDE modules, SCSI modules, USB modules, Firewire modules and now SATA modules to find the CD/DVD drive, whereas the usb only needs uhci-hcd, ohci-hcd, ehci-hcd and usb-storage to cover 95% of usb capable computers out there.
Make you own usb distro based on Arch is the only thing I can suggest. Possibly base it off the Archie scripts.
As for your bios, there might be an update, but thats something you can check, not for everyone to do for you.

Is it possible to connect R/3 4.7 (a.k.a Enterprise) and BI7.0/SEM-BCS6.0?

Hi,
Does anyone have some experience or knowledge on this question;
is it possible to connect R/3 4.7 (a.k.a Enterprise) and BI7.0/SEM-BCS6.0?
If yes, what is required for R/3 insatallation?
For example, SP updating on PI_BASIS, SAP-BW or so.
regards,
Katsumi

Hi, greg
Thanks for your experiential reply.
> it's a pain to rerun iterations with such an interface, though.
I want to know some more, if it colud be.
And, I'm still afraid of interactivity between R/3 4.7 and SEM-BCS 6.0.
Is there anything required for R/3 insatallation?
regards,
Katsumi

Can't write on my usb pen drive from 2 days?!?

hi, from 2 days i can't write on my usb pen drive (Transcend JetFlash Flash 16gb with FAT32 partition)
if I do a manual mount in a console by root, I can easly a do cp command and copy files over.
if I open dolphin and mount by hal the drive, I can read but not copy files, and if I open a console and do a cp command, I have this error:
cp: cannot create regular file `/media/OZETA/ownage.png': Read-only file system
what the... is going on? i used my pen 4 or 5 days ago
on the contrary, i can mount my sd card (fat32) and my 2 usb disk (fat32 and ntfs) and i can write on them.
help
Last edited by ozeta (2009-05-21 19:10:19)

Have you tried running dosfsck on the device? Of course, be sure that you unmount the usb drive and verify the dev file of the relevant partition.
Something like:
dosfsck /dev/sdb1 <----replace with correct dev file!!
to see what the problem is and then
dosfsck -a /dev/sdb1
Of course, I would strongly encourage you to backup all data on the drive first.
Last edited by madalu (2009-05-22 12:45:26)

How can I install Windows 8.1 using a USB Pen Drive in Late 2011 Macbook Pro with DVD R/W given.

How can I install Windows 8.1 using a USB Pen Drive in Late 2011 Macbook Pro with DVD R/W given.
I have Boot Camp 5.1.2 (497) and there is no option for installing using USB. I have downloaded an image of Windows 8.1 already.
I can't install using DVD R/W because it's not working.
Please help me.
Thank you.

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How to made usb pen drive a recovery tool....?, how to made usb pen drive a recovery tool....?

As I have downloaded your Recovery Assistant tool on Intel base machine now please describe the whole process to make USB pen drive a recovering tool for my Mac Book Pro as it was pre-install a Snow Lapord OS X.

What OS are you trying to make a bootable recovery for?
10.6 is not available for download and I can't see how you have a MacBook Pro with Retina that came with 10.6.8?
You can either make a recovery disk (which boots & then downloads the installer from the App store). clintonfrombirmingham linked instructions for that.
Or you can make a bootable install disk. First you download the OS from the App store & then use a command to image the installer to a USB disk.
Creating a bootable OS X installer in OS X Mavericks
http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/create-mavericks-installation-media/
10.6 should be on a DVD installer disk which can be copied to a USB disk via another method, ask if you need that.

Airport Extreme Base Station Losing Connection To USB Hard Drive.

I bought a new 5th gen AEBS and installed it yesterday updating the firmware to latest version and enabling the 300mbps 5GHz access point.
I formatted a 2.5" USB hard drive to Mac OS Journaled and connected it via USB.
Last night I transferred GBs of data with no problems. However I copied my iTunes media over night, and this morning it stated that it lost connection to the drive.
I since cannot connect to the drive again without disconnecting the USB drive and reconnecting it.
This seems to be a common problem with no evident fixes. Has anyone got a reliable connection out of this device?
I was using a MacBook Pro 2010 on SL.
If not then I suppose I might send this back and get a dedicated NAS.

I just found this thread - I am not sure the energy saver option will apply to non 'local' hard drives, i.e. the hard drive connected to the AEBS.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3616812

Find letter assigned to USB pen drive

Hi to all,
I need to programatically find out the letter assigned to a USB pen drive,
after I plug it (in a Win OS)
I've searched, but I haven't find anything useful.
Could you help me, please?
Vix
In claris non fit interpretatio
Using LV 2013 SP1 on Win 7 64bit
Using LV 8.2.1 on WinXP SP3
Using CVI 2012 SP1 on Win 7 64bit, WinXP and WinXP Embedded
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"Qod natura non dat, Salmantica non praestat"
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USB pen drive mounts not seen in system.log. Why?

Any idea why USB pen drive mounts are not loogged in system.log? A WD Paasport drive mount shows up in system.log. Any idea why this is the case and how it can tracked/logged?
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But one guy had the brains to have a look inside. Turns out dust had accumulated in the drive and on the connectors, and when he cleaned them, and unplugged and replugged them, it worked fine. So that's what I did. Took it out and put it back in. Amazing the stuff I cleared out! I also un- and re-plugged the power cable and the data ribbon at the mutha board and bingo!. We have disk, and I can breathe again.
Recommend to others they pretend they've bought a new drive, do a remove and reinstall and be very fastidious. You may not need a new one after all. I just love it that stuff can still be FIXED!
Thanks to Lou and all of you who share your experiences. It's like my brain is suddenly soooo huge...

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