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[philmore]

Hello,
I've seen a similar topic to this but it never got resolved. I have a samsung YP-U2J mp3 player and am having trouble connecting it to my system. Im running X4 desktop pro. I've flashed the firmware to turn the device into a regular drag and drop player, but it still isnt recognized in xandros. All of the information says that it should work. The player looks like it is there at first, but when I go to click on it, all I get is a message saying to insert a disk. I've flashed the firmware twice, to make sure, with no change. The player shows up as /var/autofs/zip.1/zip.1. If anyone knows of anything, that'd be great.
Philmore

[Doctore]

Try to check this out:
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=29598&sid=f0edeb5ca73f5617083105042df68247



Doctore

[molgen]

Many USB flash MP3 players are not automounted by Xandros. You have to mount them manually. The message you're seeing is exactly the same that I saw with two different USB flash MP3 players.

I found this link very helpful: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11637.html

[Doctore]

Does it appear in Xandros Storage Manager? If, then try mont/unmounting
it graphically. Formatting etc. is also possible with the Storage Manager.
It should be located at Launch>Applications>System>Administrator Tools



Doctore

[philmore]

Thanks for all the quick responses! Unfortunately, when I try to mount the drive manually, I get this error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I tried to use a plan USB flash drive, and it was detected with no problem. Also, when I go to Xandros Storage, the drive shows up as unpartition, even though it shows up fine in Windows. I even reformatted in FAT32 again to make sure. When I try to partition and format in X4, it goes really quick, like it doesn't really do anything. Then, when I plug it into a Windows machine, it actually does need to be formatted. Any ideas?

[molgen]

Did you follow the instructions at the link in my previous post? Please copy and paste your console session when you try to mount it manually.

[Dave67]

I have a T-sonic 610c flash drive player and I had the same problem here is what I got from tech support. As with my player you will have to mount it and unmount it when you get done using it.

Type the following in a console when your player connected

As root in the console create a directory mnt/samsung now after this
type cat /proc/partitions this will give you a list of partitions on your system, look for your players most likely on the bottom of the list.
I added info below to the list to help you.


below is what I got:

3 0 80418240 hda
3 1 80405293 hda1
3 64 78150744 hdb
3 65 773120 hdb1
3 66 77377623 hdb2
8 16 125952 sdb
8 17 125296 sdb1
8 32 503808 sdc
8 33 503792 sdc1
8 48 2025600 sdd- this is the /var/autofs/zip.1/zip.1. mine was zip.4
8 49 2025480 sdd1 // this is the my players mount partition below the sdd



For my player the partition that i need to mount is sdd1 so I would mount it this way mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/Tsonic

for yours
: mount /dev/xxx /mnt/samsung "note there is a space after mount and after the drives name xxx" replace the xxx with device name

for your player what ever the the system calls your drive mine was sdd1 so you would just need to change the xxx to your drives name. after you type the above you should see a icon in my Linux with your player name.

so if sda1 type mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/samsung

since the mount point is in a root only folder you might need to be in root to add files to your player I have to be in root to do that. I am testing another way to mount my player and if it works i will let you know.

To unmount it type unmount mnt/samsung
would like to see your results from cat /proc/partitions command just to see what your drive is called.

Post what you get from this I am wondering if all flash players will have to be mounted like this.
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