Appendix D. User feedback
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D.2.2 Features we will not implement
This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View it
as the opposite of a TODO!
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Interfacing with other USB devices (like cameras) or 2 player games over USB
The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave. The player
can only serve as a slave, as most other USB devices such as cameras can. Thus,
without a master no communication between the slaves can take place. If that is
not enough, we have no ways of actually controlling the communication performed
over USB since the USB circuit in the player is strictly made for disk-access and
does not allow us to play with it the way we’d need for any good communication
to work.
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Support other file systems than FAT32 (like NTFS or ext2 or whatever)!
No. support for more file systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary
features. You can partition your player fine, just make sure the first one is FAT32
and then make the other ones whatever file system you want. Just do not expect
Rockbox to understand them.
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Add scandisk-like features!
It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of
useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to
a host computer.
The Rockbox manual
Toshiba Gigabeat F Series
