The message below references CF cards up to 64MB. How large an SD card witll the BN accommodate? Also when upgrading the firmware of the BN, am I correct that one must have no larger than a 512MB CF or SD card before this will work?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:49 PM To: Lauren E. Conner; [email protected] Subject: re: [Braillenote] BN & External CD ROM The drives exist, but not many work with the bn; I am not sure of any that do, but I know that some will because I got one to work once. Unfortunately, it was just a cd drive in a hard drive enclosure so it did not really have an official brand, and I had to reset before it would be recognized. As to a bunch of disks being cheaper than a cf card, I am not sure about that. One 32 or 64gb cf card can hold a LOT; one cd holds only 700mb (.7gb). So even a 32gb card holds about 47 CDs by my quick math. It may be cheaper (depending on many factors) but it will be a lot more convenient to store things on one card than on 40 disks that you have to label and keep track of, especially when you cannot put braille labels right on the disk itself like you can a cf card. Just my opinion. Have a great day, Alex > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lauren E. Conner" <[email protected] >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected] >Date sent: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:38:19 +0000 >Subject: [Braillenote] BN & External CD ROM >Hi List, >I just posted a question about increasing the size of the Braille Note's hard drive. If that is not possible, another idea for storing my files might be CDs. I figure buying a bunch of CDs would be cheaper than buying multiple compact flash cards or storage drives that fit into the BN's USB port. >However, that thought brought up 2 questions for me. Fist, I know the BN doesn't have its own CD ROM, so is there such a thing as an external CD ROM (for example, a device that hooks to a computer or pda via a USB cable). And second, if such CD ROMs exist, has anyone been successful in using one with their braille note? >I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter. Thanks so much. >Lauren >___ >Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. >If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the >list as well. >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[email protected] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
