Since people have been fishing for information about the FPGA changes in the upcoming software release for the DS and DS Jr I thought I’d start a separate thread to avoid hijacking other threads. I don’t know PS Audio’s release schedule and can’t guess because I have no idea what else they will be …

The reason I use FAT16 is that Ted said that is what we should be using as that is what the DirectStream DACs expect. I have never had a problem updating so… Read some of these posts: https://forum.psaudio.com/search?expanded=true&q=fat16%20%40tedsmith

I’ve had my DSD since 2014, never had a problem with an update. All completed with Mac. MS-DOS(FAT) is completely compatible with FAT16 and FAT32.

Good for you! Now back to what Ted the designer of the DAC has said…

Clearly, I have no experience that would matter to other DSD users. LOL.

Hi Speed Racer, I found out that ‘sudo newfs_msdos -F 16 -v DSD /dev/disk7’ leads to deletion of the 1 level of the medium. I think it’s better to change it to ‘sudo newfs_msdos -F 16 -v DSD /dev/disk7s1’. This way the 0 level remains ‘Generic MassStorageClass Media’ (including the MBR) and the 1 …

So I rolled back to Snowmass today… For about 10 minutes. At first I doubted it, was not sure I liked the change. Going back proved it to me, Windom is much easier to listen to, I hear the brightness and edge in Snowmass now. You did good Ted.

You clearly have info that can help others here. I’m a PC user but looked up Mac formatting for SD cards and saw the reference to MSDOS(FAT) and MSDOS(FAT32) and that with another users input helped another forum member get his DAC to accept the new firmware. We can all help each other. This is a v…

That was in response to speed racer’s dismissal of my statement.

After reloading an earlier version then reloading Windom I am really liking what I am hearing. Great well defined, tuneful bass. Vocals that are excellent, I can now understand more words in songs than I ever could before. All this along with a refined treble range that sounds so great!. ozzy

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MS-DOS(FAT) works fine!

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