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Hey Kevin,

@Kjohn

I plugged USB into back of controller and went to load programs but nothing shows up. Am I missing a step?

I don’t know if you checked this already, but today USB sticks may be formatted with exFAT

@File Format For Loading Files onto a USB stick

If your going to use a usb stick to load your gcode files, make sure your usb stick is either partitioned in the NTSF or FAT32 format. Using any other file type may not show files on the controller.

PS: It should say NTFS
PS2: Btw, NTFS and FAT32 are neither partitioning systems nor file types but file systems.

@File Format For Loading Files onto a USB stick

USB sticks must be 2.0. USB 3.0 sticks may not be detected.

This I doubt. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible by design.
There were rare issues concerning early hardware.

There may however be incompatibility regarding connectors, but when that shows up it’s obvious.

• USB 3.0 cable can not be used with USB 2.0 terminals because of the additions - USB 3.0 Type B plug are not backward compatible.
• USB 3.0 cables can be used on USB 2.0 hosts, but then require USB 3.0 end devices.
• USB 2.0 cables can be used on USB 3.0 hosts.
• USB 3.0 end devices c a n be connected to USB 2.0 hosts. There may be problems if they consume more than 500 mA of current (USB 3.0 allows up to 900 mA, USB 2.0 only up to 500 mA).
• USB 2.0 end devices can be connected to USB 3.0 hosts.

The controller contains a Raspberry Pi 3.

Raspberry Pi 3 supports USB 2.0, but as mentioned above, a USB 3.0 device is always backward compatible. A USB 3.0 Memory Stick runs on a USB 2.0 host without a problem. The problem sometimes is another problem: It is that devices larger 32 GB are mostly formatted using exFAT and not FAT32. If your OS version does not support exFAT, reformatting your memory stick is the solution then.