Re: Argosy HD-363N

Well, true!  But my experience with "mature" operating systems and
networked storage was less than stellar....except for the AT!

-----Original Message-----
From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Hill
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AT] Argosy HD-363N


...except that the AT itself runs WinCE!

--Tim

Crum, Robert J (Sales Ops-Cupertino) wrote:

>Just another thought....
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>I purchased a Tritton NAS last summer (runs Linux), and wanted to copy 
>music files to it from my WinMe (don't laugh) machine.  Basically, I 
>could never get it to work reliably, and the bottom line from the 
>Tritton people is that WinME had crappy networking.  I would find that 
>I couldn't see certain folders, the WinME machine couldn't connect to 
>the NAS, I could copy about 10 files to it before I started getting 
>networking errors, filename with 'special characters' in them would be 
>munged, etc.
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>So I bagged the WinME machine in favor of a new WinXP machine, and the 
>whole system has worked flawlessly.
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>So....FWIW...if this Argosy device is running WinCE as someone 
>suggested, you might just be seeing an artifact of less than robust 
>networking.
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>Cheers,
>Bob
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum 
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robin Mitchell
>Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:23 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [AT] Argosy HD-363N
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>On Thursday, February 3, 2005, 11:56:57 AM, Tim Hill wrote:
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>>Here's a guess: What kind of folder names are you using? Are the ones 
>>it's finding "simple" names (like 8.3 names without spaces)? There are
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>>many flavors of the SMB protocol out there and it's possible that AT 
>>is using one that isn't compatible with the NAS box.
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>That's a good thought, and I should have mentioned it -- none of them 
>are simple 8.3 names, but I don't see any obvious correlation between 
>the ones that work and the ones that don't.  And again, it's not just 
>the AT that isn't seeing them; TOCMaker isn't either.
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>For what it's worth, the AT is seeing the following three directories
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>Acoustic Eidolon
>Ad Vielle Que Poura
>Al Stewart
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>while missing others like
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>Beatles
>Judy Collins
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>An eclectic collection, to be sure, but rather smaller than I wanted...
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>Still, it's a good theory.  I tried renaming all the artist and album 
>directories in my small collection to 8.3 names, with no effect at all 
>on the AT.  However, TOCMaker did see one directory that it had missed 
>previously, but still missed another one.  (I didn't try renaming all 
>the files, since it would have been a *lot* of work and seemed unlikely

>to affect the directory scanning.)
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>   -- Robin
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