MakerBot Replicator 5th gen.

[Deutscherbub]

Just came in last Friday

Setup was quick and easy - was printing the "Nut and Bolt" sample in the onboard library within 1 hour of receipt!

However, when I tried to load up one of my own files (by plugging in a USB flash drive), the MB wouldn't recognize the drive.

I looked on all the forums to see if someone else had encountered this issue, but couldn't find anything.

Anyhow, after trying various things, I finally decided to try a different flash drive and - VOILA!

Seems like the first flash drive is (for some reason) just not compatible, so this is mainly to save others the headache of troubleshooting - try a different flash drive first!!!

:O)

[Dan Newman]

Make sure the flash drive was not formatted exFAT. I'm pretty sure
that (1) TI Angstrom Linux does not support exFAT as it is proprietary
and requires licensing from Microsoft, and (2) even if TI Angstrom did
support exFAT, MBI has really made the Angstrom distro on the 5th gen
very lean (which is a good thing) and as such likely would have not
included exFAT even if it was available. And, I know that I've
recently bought some flash drives which came formatted exFAT.

Dan

[Robert Vignone]

I had a similar problem with my 32GB USB 3. I formatted the thumb drive to be fat32 and it worked great. I will have to order an extra thumb to be just for the printer.