Bug in User Manual

[Jef Driesen]

On 2013-02-22 16:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at telenet.be> 
> wrote:
>>
>> The DR5/DRX shows up as a filesystem on the host PC, and the dives 
>> are
>> available as UDDF files.
>
> Ugh. Is this another "fake FAT filesystem" like the Uemis Zurich?
> People really get too clever sometimes, and getting fake FAT
> filesystem right can be really really hard.
>
> Of course, maybe it's a *real* FAT filesystem, which would be easier
> to do but sounds very fragile. Or it's another filesystem altogether,
> more amenable for faking. Has anybody tried it?

According to the info I have from HW, it's a real FAT16 filesystem. The 
DR5 has a lot more computing power and storage (32bit processor, 256M 
RAM, 2G flash memory) than your average dive computer. I haven't used 
one personally, but I would be very surprised if it isn't rock solid.

Jef