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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Problems with the Sansa e280Re: Problems with the Sansa e280
From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:39:17 +0100 On Saturday 25 April 2009 13:30, Donald Perley wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Christopher Chaltain < > > cchaltain_at_austin.rr.com> wrote: > > . I'm running Rockbox version 3.2, which I believe is the latest. > > > > It sounds like you're saying this isn't necessary in the newish versions > > of Rockbox, and that I can enable the USB stack in Rockbox. It sounds > > like this is the default, but this isn't the behaviour I'm seeing on my > > rockbox. Is there a way to configure this? I didn't see anything in the > > Rockbox menus or the documentation for Rockbox on the Sansa players. > > In the release notes for 3.2 it says that USB is not enabled for stability > reasons (not clear what they are). Here's part of a thread from the developers' list, just before 3.2 was frozen for release: > the rockbox USB stack has been enabled for > PortalPlayer devices for a while now. It works fine for most people, > but some people are having problems. > > Those problems usually cause unexpected disconnects after a while, > during file transfers (i.e. the OS stops talking to the DAP). This > is basically equivalent to unplugging the device while a transfer is > in progress, so the risk of filesystem corruption is pretty high. I've > only heard of this happening on sansa so far, but I don't know if this > means that other targets are immune. The decision at the end of the discussion thread was to leave USB disabled to avoid the risk of file loss / data corruption. A fix was being worked on and therefore may be part of the next release. Antony. -- "The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it." - New York Times, following a demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.htmlReceived on 2009-04-25 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |