I was updating my Humax machine manually via a thumb drive. I could not get one to work or be recognised by the Humax. Tried a fairly new SanDisk, an older one, and a Kingston. So I went searching around the house and found an old one in a drawer I had got in the early 2000's. You can tell it is old as the size is a massive 128 megabytes It worked like magic
That 'right there' @stapp is what i admire. There are old thumb drives that simply work when everything else for some reason fails to function as it should. I like your interest in experimenting
which humax device? my experience with older devices and some kind of plug are limited in size to use, they dont work with current big memory devices.
please read https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/usb-not-recognised.5377/page-2 for FW updates the stick/disk is limited, but not for copying files to a regular stick.
Cluster size, file system, so many variables for why one would work when another wouldn't. Surprisingly all of my thumb drives still work. One of them is an old 2 GB PNY from 2007. FAT32 seems to universally work pretty well.
the very small size is due missing drivers for anything else because the OS hasn't been loaded, its a basic IO feature only for FW updates and similar very below actions.
