Well, that was a puzzling hour or so
The Foxsat didn't recognise the new 2Gb stick. The stick is a SanDisk and was already formatted as FAT32 and with SanDisk's software on it. I copied the software to my PC and reformatted the stick as FAT (because my son's stick, which had worked to install the custom firmware, was FAT). The Foxsat now recognised the stick and happily re-installed the custom firmware (maintaining all my customisations).
I then reformatted as FAT32 and once again the Foxsat happily re-installed the custom firmware. I now suspected that the Foxsat didn't like there being other files on the stick so I copied SanDisk's files back and yet again the Foxsat happily re-installed the custom firmware.
So, as far as files are concerned, the stick is the same as it was when I took it out of the packaging. My conclusion - which it's too late to prove - is that there was something on the pre-formatted stick which the Foxsat didn't like.
As an experiment, I tried again with the 32Gb stick I'd first tried and which hadn't worked. I reformatted it (as FAT32, which it already was) but the Foxsat still didn't recognise it.
I now see why there's so much discussion about sticks not working. I conclude that the Foxsat doesn't like large sticks (which, these days, is most of them) and it's fussy about some aspects of the formatting. I think I prefer the serial method used by the 9300
| Wed 5 Sep 2012 13:22:13
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