This may be more suited to highly technical, but..
I have a device known as a Music Keg, sold by Kenwood, it's the same device as the Phatnoise Phatbox.
www.phatnoise.com
This is a very slick automotive MP3 player, works like a huge CD changer through a Kenwood headunit in my case.
There also very expensive, I paid $400 for mine new, have had it replaced under warrenty once already.
It uses Linux of some sort on the player in the car, and a removable cartridge with two FAT32 partitions, you put the cartridge in a USB cradle and it's seen as a regular old removalbe drive by windows, you can put data or whatever on it. There is software, Phatnoise Music Manager that you creat playlists and all that with.
Anyway, this issue and question I have is this. That DMS contains, in my case, a regular old lappy Toshiba 10gig hard drive, they offer larger drives, but they are EXPENSIVE. I can get larger lappy drives way, way cheaper elsewhere. The catch is, ONLY drives from phatnoise will work in the player.
I want to know how they did this. People have tried using ghost and such to recreate the two partitions and all there Linux stuff on a larger drive, and it will work fine in the cradle and with the software, but will NOT work in the player.
There is a rather cryptic fellow on the forum at phatnoise that swears he's done it, but will not tell how he did this. He keeps droping hints, which I don't know that I trust, that it is NOT firmware related. Maybe, maybe not. He swears it's something very simple and very intelegent.
What do you think? How would you make a common every day drive NOT work in something like this? Where do I start looking?
I have a spare 10gig DMS, a regular IDE adaptor, and am going to start testing to see if I can get it to NOT work in the player. I have been told some people have formated there DMS with windows and never been able to get it to work in the player again, makeing me think it is something actually on the disk and readable. I'd really love to figure this out, I've spent enough money on this thing and it would be nice to not have to pay there prices for another DMS since the whole shebang is out of warrenty anyway.
I have a device known as a Music Keg, sold by Kenwood, it's the same device as the Phatnoise Phatbox.
www.phatnoise.com
This is a very slick automotive MP3 player, works like a huge CD changer through a Kenwood headunit in my case.
There also very expensive, I paid $400 for mine new, have had it replaced under warrenty once already.
It uses Linux of some sort on the player in the car, and a removable cartridge with two FAT32 partitions, you put the cartridge in a USB cradle and it's seen as a regular old removalbe drive by windows, you can put data or whatever on it. There is software, Phatnoise Music Manager that you creat playlists and all that with.
Anyway, this issue and question I have is this. That DMS contains, in my case, a regular old lappy Toshiba 10gig hard drive, they offer larger drives, but they are EXPENSIVE. I can get larger lappy drives way, way cheaper elsewhere. The catch is, ONLY drives from phatnoise will work in the player.
I want to know how they did this. People have tried using ghost and such to recreate the two partitions and all there Linux stuff on a larger drive, and it will work fine in the cradle and with the software, but will NOT work in the player.
There is a rather cryptic fellow on the forum at phatnoise that swears he's done it, but will not tell how he did this. He keeps droping hints, which I don't know that I trust, that it is NOT firmware related. Maybe, maybe not. He swears it's something very simple and very intelegent.
What do you think? How would you make a common every day drive NOT work in something like this? Where do I start looking?
I have a spare 10gig DMS, a regular IDE adaptor, and am going to start testing to see if I can get it to NOT work in the player. I have been told some people have formated there DMS with windows and never been able to get it to work in the player again, makeing me think it is something actually on the disk and readable. I'd really love to figure this out, I've spent enough money on this thing and it would be nice to not have to pay there prices for another DMS since the whole shebang is out of warrenty anyway.
