USB drive on a nec 880

What is the largest size usb click drive I can plug into my 880? I have a bluetooth cf card that I would like to install and leave in the 880 and use a pcmcia card for wireless/or wired net working. If I can stick - ideally - a 2 gb usb click drive into the 880 I will be set.

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work, as long as it is properly formatted (FAT32 or FAT). I once ran a 30 GB hard drive in a USB enclosure on my 800, and was able to see it fine. (The FAT32 upper limit is supposed to be 32 GB.)

Does the 800 have a powered usb port?

Apparently, though it doesn't provide a lot of power. I seem to recall that it could read the hard drive without a separate power supply to the hard drive - at least for the first minute or two. But I don't recommend doing this if you can avoid it. Even my XP notebook's USB ports couldn't power that same hard drive for more than a few minutes at a time before it was no longer able to read it.

the 800 can power the usb key fine. so i'm sure the 880 can too.

Right - I should've clarified. The USB thumb drive requires far less power than the hard drive.

My Mobile Pro 880 can read an 80GB External USB drive (2.5" SATA2 FAT32 formatted).

On a sad note: Both the 880 and the 900C seem to only support the slowest 1.5Mbps speed on their host USB port, and really only about 1.2Mbps sustained. Even USB1.0 ports are suppossed to support 12Mbps "Full Speed" mode. This would expain why some mice don't work, since many mice need more than 1.5Mbps of bandwidth.

my nec reads my 60 gb usb hd without adding anything to it at all. Just plugged it in...although I have an external power source.

I've got a 2 GB USB flash drive and a 40 GB portable USB hard drive, both of which I use routinely in my 880 without need for external power (neither device supports external power in any case).

Somewhere, a while back, I posed about a free utility I found that allowed me to format my 320 GB external drive (which had its own power) as FAT32 (the standard supports up to 2 TB, though Windows can't natively format a FAT32 partition that size). After formatting it FAT32, my 880 could read the 320 GB drive...slowly.

I got a USB HD enclosure and a 4GB harddisk for $4.50, and will try it on my MP900C. I will see how it goes.