[bookport] Re: Book Port Firmware Beta 2.1.0.22

  • From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:30:58 -0500

Chris and others:

I am waiting to find out if 4GB is the top for the card size, or if it
is unlimited. We will know soon. You may safely assume that it is at
least 4GB at this time, as we have tested with this size.

Other than the new file sizes I mentioned in a previous message, 16MB
for text and 4GB for audio, and the new level commands, not much has
changed. It doesn't seem like much, but the size breakthroughs were
major changes which took a lot of time.

Rob Meredith

>>> chris.BP.FL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/17/06 01:11PM >>>
hello rob meredith,

you seem to know more about the beta firmware 2.1.0.22 than said in
beta
"what's new".
can you tell us about the maximum capacity of CF, is it "no issue
anymore"
or 4GB or maybe still 2?.
and what is your comment on the post "[bookport] Summary of new beta
features (January 2006) - emai7s" in this list?

Chris Sauer.

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Subject: [bookport] Re: Book Port Firmware Beta 2.1.0.22

Brian:

1. The new firmware is compatible with old index files. Resending
should not be necessary.

2. The maximum file size for text files is 16MB, and the maximum file
size for MP3 files is 4GB.

3. I don't think page navigation speeds have been improved. If this is
still a problem, let us know.

Rob Meredith

>>> buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/13/06 06:32PM >>>
        Helo Robert.  Here are a couple of questions which might seem
obvious,
but I'll put them out there none the less.

1.  I'm assuming the new firmware is backward compatible with the old
index
formats, right?  That is, I don't need to resend material to the
Bookport
which is already there just because I update the firmware, right?

2.  What are file size limitations now for text and audio files?  Can
we
assume that the 4GB file size limit which applies to files in the
FAT32
filesystem is the limiting factor now?

3.  In older versions of the firmware, text files with a lot of pages
would
cause the Bookport to get slower and slower when querying for the
current
page number with the 0 key as you read further and further into the
file.  I
always assumed that this was because Bookport was scanning the index
file
to get the page count each time it was asked.  With the 4MB file size
limitation now gone in the latest beta firmware, it seems likely that
documents
with more pages would become more common.  Does this new firmware
perform
page counting faster now, given that the old way is fairly slow, and
only
likely to get worse as files get bigger? Or, as a corolary question,
is
there a
limit to the total number of pages supported in a given text file? I
guess
I shouldn't limit this to text files, since audio files have pages to,
and
since the same bad behavior is displayed.

-thanks
-Brian



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