Oppo BDP-93 not recognizing external hard drive

[HomerJAU]

Some older devices just can’t read large drives.

 

[sperezmore]

Given that the OPPO BDP-93 was launched way back in 2010, the maximum supported HDD size is 2TB and it will need to be formatted to NTFS...

You are right 100%, got an OPPO BDP-93 and works only with 2TB Max, formatted to NTFS

Regards,

 

[inspclouseau]

Hey peoples, I am having similar issue with a new to me Oppo 93. It sees a PNY 512GB thumb drive MBP/NTFS as long as it's inserted after powering up the unit and plays media fine.

However, no luck with some WD drives, a 2TB and a 4TB with 2 equal partitions. I purchased a "caddy" to connect over USB to the Oppo and it doesn't recognize the hard drives (also MBP/NTFS) connecting to the USB port (though my Samsung F8500 monitor sees the drive just fine).

Perhaps throwing good money after bad, I got a second caddy and an ESATA M to M cable. The caddy seems connected fine to the Oppo over the USB, it has a slot in the front that takes SDRAM cards, and sees one of those. No luck with the hard drive though. To be clear the caddies work fine with my TV and PC. Focussing on the 2TB drive because I want to rule out issue with multiple partition. 2GB disc is MBR/NTFS and Disk Management Win 10 tool says it's Healthy (see image below).

Any suggestions to make this work?

We own a bdp 93, bdp 103 and the udp 203. Thumb drives work on all of them, but our 2 TB 'My Passport' hard drive will NOT on the bdp 93. Not sure why, Possibly too large for content on that particular player.?

 

[hafquark]

We own a bdp 93, bdp 103 and the udp 203. Thumb drives work on all of them, but our 2 TB 'My Passport' hard drive will NOT on the bdp 93. Not sure why, Possibly too large for content on that particular player.?

Don't own a Passport, but I have a 2TB WD Element that works on the BDP-93.

 

[DuncanS]

We own a bdp 93, bdp 103 and the udp 203. Thumb drives work on all of them, but our 2 TB 'My Passport' hard drive will NOT on the bdp 93. Not sure why, Possibly too large for content on that particular player.?

Could it be due to the type of Formatting used on the HDD?