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From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: iRiver players (was: USB sync/async mount)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:36:21
Message-Id: 20060328103127.GB8872@huxley
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] USB sync/async mount by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Hi Boyd,
2 on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 16:51:00, you wrote:
3 > The stock firmware does not show up as a USB block device under either
4 > Windows or Linux. There is an official USB firmware that you can download
5 > and install that makes it act like a standard USB block device under both
6 > operating systems.
7
8 I tried it on my iFP-895 and didn't like it at all. The proprietary
9 protocol isn't exactly speedy but with the ifp driver for Linux it's OK,
10 does some 700-800 kB/s on my USB 1.1. The USB Mass Storage
11 implementation peaks at about 50 kB/s. For a 512 MB player that's a tad
12 slow...
13
14 cheers!
15 Matthias
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