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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:44:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Portable MP3 players
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030624064440.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200306221957.h5MJvsW8078266@whizzo.transsys.com>

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On 22-Jun-2003 Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> 
> FYI,
> 
> I recently got an iRiver iFP-390T MP3 player device.  (For more 
> information, see http://www.iriver.com for the details.)  By default,
> this device connects to a Windoze system and uses their "manager"
> application to load files, etc.  They also have an alternative version of
> firmware that you can download (called "UMS") that has the device
> appear to be a generic USB storage device.  It works without any
> quirks or changes with FreeBSD-4.8.  You must mount it as an
> MSDOS filesystem and off you go.
> 
> I got mine in the US at Best Buy.  (256MB for US$200.00)
> 
> louie

Sounds good.  Just one question: do you need Windows to download the
alternate firmware?

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"


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On 22-Jun-2003 Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> 
> FYI,
> 
> I recently got an iRiver iFP-390T MP3 player device.  (For more 
> information, see http://www.iriver.com for the details.)  By default,
> this device connects to a Windoze system and uses their "manager"
> application to load files, etc.  They also have an alternative version of
> firmware that you can download (called "UMS") that has the device
> appear to be a generic USB storage device.  It works without any
> quirks or changes with FreeBSD-4.8.  You must mount it as an
> MSDOS filesystem and off you go.
> 
> I got mine in the US at Best Buy.  (256MB for US$200.00)
> 
> louie

Sounds good.  Just one question: do you need Windows to download the
alternate firmware?

- -- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"

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