Hello Alan! Am Di Oktober 12 2004 18:24 schrieb Alan Stern: > > I recently got a Sony MZ-NH 900 Hi-MD walkman that can be used as a USB > > storage device (and, in its primary function as a portable MiniDisc audio > > player...). > > Sorry, I'm not clear on the terms. Is a MiniDisc is a small-sized CD disc > or is it a hard disk? In other words, is it writable?
A MiniDisc is similar to a CD in a hard plastic case (see http://www.minidisc.org/part_What_are_MiniDiscs.html for more information). "Hi-MD" is a technology recently introduced by Sony in the beginning of 2004 that allows "normal" (old) MiniDisc media and "Hi-MD" (new) media to be formatted with the Hi-MD format. You then simply connect your Hi-MD walkman to your computer using the USB cable and you have a (little slow) mass storage device. Depending on what type of MiniDisc media you use, you have between 280 MB and 1GB space available. > Well, maybe it doesn't have a partition table. There's nothing > necessarily wrong with that. CDs don't have partition tables, for > example. Nor do floppy disks. It does not :) Shame on me. No, I won't tell you that I study Business Computing... I just got a hint from Stephen that solved the "problem" perfectly. > What's the difference between a Hi-MD disk and a "normal" Minidisc? And > what is Hi-MD mode? Hi-MD is very well explained on http://www.minidisc.org/hi-md_faq.html "Hi-MD mode" means that a ("normal") MiniDisc (or a Hi-MD [1 GB] MiniDisc) is formatted in a special way (only available with the new Hi-MD units) so that it can contain data and music. This "killer feature" was the reason why I decided to buy a Hi-MD device instead of a iPod. The iPod is faster while transferring music but with 4 Hi-MD discs (� 1 GB at a price of about 6 EUR each) you have the same capacity as the 40GB iPod... Thanks for your help! Regards, Jean Pierre ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
