Re: MP3 players

On 2007-11-29, Mike <Not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anybody know what to look for with regard to MP3 players that can be
mounted as USB mass storage devices? I'm asking as the last one I
tried had some awful M$DOS5 variant for a file system, and try as I
might, I couldn't mount it read/write.

I can't see any of today's players still having such non-standard
formatting. I even suspect you could have formatted your previous one.

That's what I did with my first (some 128 MB Packard Bell crap). Would you
believe it actually had 4 partitions, and stored all data on the fourth
partition. I removed them all, creating a single primary partition.
Formatted that with FAT. Worked like a charm.


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