[bookport] What's With All the Beeping and the Zero T?
- From: "Crabb, Nolan" <Nolan.Crabb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:58:25 -0500
Well, here's an interesting experience to share. For the past several
weeks, every time I delete a file from the Book Port, I hear a high
beep, then a low beep, then the synthesizer solemnly declares "zero t."
The file is deleted and all is well, but it struck me as odd.
So I decided that a reformat of my 2-gig card was probably in order.
Accordingly, I did the reformat, loaded the card--took hours--and got
the same result when I deleted a file.
Need I reformat again? I don't mind hearing beeps and "zero t," but I
bet others aren't hearing them when they delete.
Ad it doesn't happen every time I delete either. That's the oddest part
of this. I can't predict when it will happen. Also, occasionally, when
tapping the number 8 during the read of an MP3 book transferred using
the transfer software, I'll hear the synthesizer state without emotion,
"FS Panic." Now that amuses me a little. I realize in this case that
the FS probably stands for file statistic or something, not Freedom
Scientific. But whenever I hear "FS Panic," I picture my PAC Mate
chasing my poor little Book Port, and who wouldn't panic under those
circumstances. I know I'd be panicking hard-core if I ever actually
witnessed such a thing.
So the bottom line question in all this written ranting of mine is: Do
I need to panic or even be concerned much about some of these messages?
The hole "beep, beep zero t" thing doesn't seem to have any adverse side
effects, and the "FS Panic" thing seems to be transient and unimportant,
but I figured it didn't hurt to check. I mean, if all this foreshadows
a breakdown of the Book Port, you'd better believe I'm going to scramble
hard to buy a new one so that when the old one goes back for repairs, I
won't be without.
Nolan Crabb
Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
615 Howerton Ct., P.O. Box 2320
Jefferson City, MO 65102-2320
(573) 751-4788
(800) 592-6004 (toll-free)
e-mail: nolan.crabb@xxxxxxxxxx
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