I’ve got a TraxAudio mStation MP3 player in my car. It’s essentially an IDE hard drive with a pretty LCD on the front; you plug the drive into your machine, copy files to it, and then plug it into the docking bay in the car and listen to the MP3s thereon. I was using it on spike2, a Win2K box. Copied loads of files to it, and it worked fine. Then I downgraded spike2 to Win98. Now I put the drive in the machine, and it displays a few files on it with gibberish names. I tried copying some other files to the drive and then putting it back in the car, to see if it identified those newly copied files: no dice. The car thinks that the hard drive is empty. It’s formatted as FAT32 — did the FAT32 format change somehow between 98 and 2K? Thanks a lot, Microsoft. Thanks very much.
I Have had one of these for xmas with the 10G HDD. Fiting it wasen’t easy but it fited when I first put music on it it worked fine but when I deleted a song thats when the problems started what i found was that windows puts a recycle bin on the hard drive and when you go to the car, the unit reads this as a folder and ignores the rest as it can’t read deleated files then it freezes as it trys. the only way I found is to put all the info from the unit to your computer, wipe the unit clean using the properites of windows and transfure the noex. file and only the music that you want. hope this works for you it did for me i’m using xp and don’t format the drive to NTFS as this confused my unit.
Posted by steve on January 22nd, 2005.
Steve: doesn’t matter to me, that, because I plug it into a Linux box, which doesn’t nisist on scattering its own stuff across the drive.
Posted by sil on January 22nd, 2005.