Hi!
I’ve also having troubles with my new Sandisk Extreme 16GB. Car stereo is made by Sony.
I’m not yet sure if problem is stereo or USB drive, but after reading this forum, i’m starting to think it’s
USB.
Car stereo says “Not supported”. I find it odd, these drives should be standard stuff. Previous
stick works quite ok, it is DeLocks’s very small stick, also 16GB. It works nicely while Sandisk’s
won’t.
I’ve started dealing with problem by first trying to do Sandisk stick identical to DeLocks.
They’re both FAT32, 32k cluster, and diskpart in windows 7 reports them being same by attributes
and partition data (1 primary partition). Sandisk has little bit larger LBA, so I tried shrinking partition to
match DeLocks; no luck. For formatting. i always used win7 own format tool, nothing else.
There’s possiblity that Sony has some hardcoded list of “compatible devices” and it refuses all else.
Theres one notable difference, dispart says Delock is “Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device” and
Sandisk is “SanDisk Extreme USB Device”. Maybe headunit checks this string?
It’s hardcoded in stick, right? Another likely scenario is that it won’t work because it’s USB3 device
(stereo fails to make stick fall back to usb2 mode)
I’d like to know if this is possible to make this stick work in car stereo.
