Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)

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Subject: Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)
From: "ns [despuqué]" <worldsnow@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:27:17 EST
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It isn't necessary to have a file system, unless you want to remove the 
HDD from the mp3 player and mount it directly to a computer...

>Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:12:23 -0900
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>Subject: Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)
>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>
>
>>From: SHIVANJJS@aol.com <SHIVANJJS@aol.com>
>>>In a message dated 11/3/98 11:40:54 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
>>dknaack@hotmail.com
>>>writes:
>>>
>>>> BTW, how do you get MP3's onto the HD??  It would be neat
>>>>  to be able to hook the player up to the computer and add/delete
>>>>  songs from the players HD.
>>>>
>>>>  DK
>>>the easiest (for computer literate) and least expensive would be too 
use
>>the
>>>standard ide interface and plug it in to the controller cable
>>
>>Possably, except that would require rebooting ones computer
>>in many cases, and unless the MP3 uses a FAT (NTFS, etc) file
>>system (or someone wants to write file system drivers for it),
>>the interface program will be forced to access the drive directly,
>>which is a pain.  I have done this in win95 before, but
>>its not really a windows friendly way to program, and makes the
>>interface program that much more difficult to write.
>
>I don't like any fat system that MS uses...  The AVR can't think as 
hard as
>those PIIs...
>
>Grant
>


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