Re: Argosy HD-363N -- UPDATE

WOW this is a little disheartening. I have one (well its not mine but) it
was purchased with the audiotron in mind. I can certainly do some testing
for ya/with ya. Is this a limitation of running a win embedded os? This
could be an issue for many of my clients...

Im now looking into the buffalo technologies japan device dam'd if I can
remember the name of it though. It runs linux and is totally hackable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abraham, Howard E.
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 7:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AT] Argosy HD-363N -- UPDATE

I must admit that my early gushing enthusiasm for this device had me
embarrassed to show my face on this list until now.  My Argosy HD-363N is
working with the AudioTron.

No, the AT cannot generate its own TOC from the Argosy.  However, I have
written my own TOC maker that is Argosy-tolerant.  I believe the problem is
that a file scan opens a handle on the Argosy.  There are a limited number
of handles available and the garbage collector isn't fast enough to release
system resources when they are no longer needed.  Thus, my program just
waits for the garbage collector to catch up.

It's slow, but it works for about 99.9% of the files on my drive.  (Out of
1400+ files it failed to process one or two of them.  I haven't tracked down
the cause yet.)

Once my TOC maker moves to a server-based network share the performance
increases dramatically.

I don't know how many people bought the Argosy, and of those I don't know
how many have Windows boxes laying around.  However, if anyone wants to play
with my barely-tested TOC maker I will make it available.  It's written in
C#, and thus requires the .NET framework to be installed.

--Howard