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5x00 Hardware / Bad Microdrive?

« on: May 22, 2004, 03:58:39 am »

After a few hours of sleep it occurred to me it was probably just over-zealous power saving.  I used mplayer -cache 30000 and it works fine and saves some power.  Thanks for the help... Gonna go play with my new microdrive now

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5x00 Hardware / Bad Microdrive?

« on: May 21, 2004, 03:47:50 am »

I just bought a refurbished 2.2GB microdrive from newegg.  The first thing I did was copy a movie to play on my 5500, and it worked great.. for about 30 seconds.  It seems that every few seconds the microdrive spins down, the movie pauses, and the drive spins back up.  This happens in all my media players..  Is there something I\'m missing, or is my microdrive hosed?

TIA

SL-5500
OpenZaurus 3.3.6pre1
Transcend 2.2gb microdrive

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General Discussion / Where do Thumbs.db files come from?

« on: April 19, 2004, 09:38:40 am »

thumbs.db files are created automatically by windows xp.  They contain thumbnail images of all the images in any given directory. annoying? yes useful? quite