PS3 What kind of usb hubs work with PS3?

[Abomination]

I want to "build in" a usb hub, to add 3 usb ports
I have tried a few usb hubs, all with external power.
One usb 1.0 (logilink) and two usb 3.0 (ewent), on three different PS3s in ports one and two..
But none worked. Usb sticks inserted in the hubs did not show up in multiman.
Do I need a usb 2.0 or are there other specifications to fulfill?
Thanks for any info.

 

[popio]

I want to "build in" a usb hub, to add 3 usb ports
I have tried a few usb hubs, all with external power.
One usb 1.0 (logilink) and two usb 3.0 (ewent), on three different PS3s in ports one and two..
But none worked. Usb sticks inserted in the hubs did not show up in multiman.
Do I need a usb 2.0 or are there other specifications to fulfill?
Thanks for any info.

you owned a PS3 slim? super slim? PS3 fat with 2 usb port?

 

[Berion]

If CellOS can read update file from e.g pendrive in one of USB ports in HUB, or see photos on it, it means HUB is recognized but multiMAN for some reason not reading it.

Take in mind that mass storage connected via HUB must have MBR partition table (or don't have any) and first partition in table must be FAT32 (CellOS and multiMAN does not support exFAT; NTFS support in multiMAN is not very good and not reliable).

BTW: multiMAN is obsolete game manager. It have great file manager (IMO greatest) but that's all. For discs dumping use IRISMAN or ManaGunz, and for games mounting just WebMAN MOD.

 

[bguerville]

The problem with USB hubs is that even if you get one that's perfectly compatible with (most) OFW features, you are likely to experience issues with homebrews and payloads because a lot of legacy homebrew code out there doesn't properly detect USB mounts, instead it merely 'scans' the first possible mount points such as usb000, usb001 & usb006 which the system allocates automatically when there's no hub in play.
Even some feature(s) in Cobra/Mamba/HEN may need updated with proper USB detection code iirc.

And btw the right way to do USB detection wouldn't be to loop through all the usbXXX pattern cases and test/stat each mount point to see if it exists either (some brews may use that method) but rather to rely on the getMountListInfo syscall dedicated to this job.

 

[Abomination]

@popio
They are PS3 slims with 2 ports

 

[Dariush Aghaee]

mass storage connected via HUB must have MBR partition table (or don't have any) and first partition in table must be FAT32.

Is this the reason why some external HDDs won't work on PS3? Specially those with USB Micro-B connector, Wrong first partition file system?

 

[Berion]

@Dariush Aghaee CellOS supports only MBR or, as I discovered last time by accident, not any partition table (since I'm switched to Linux, for me it is more handy to just use mkfs ;]). From filesystems: only FAT32, only first partition, and it shouldn't have any flags like boot, hidden etc. (I think msft/msftdata is fine).

If You fulfill all above iron rules, then it must be some hardware issue. Like timeouts in detection etc. Some USB devices, not using MSC protocol but MTP and similar and those will not be recognized because of that (but all external mass storage's using MSC I believe).