On January 10, 2004 12:09 am, Shawn wrote: > I've tried your suggestion Mike, but no luck. I unplugged the USB cable > after the desktop was booted up, then plugged the USB back in. Nothing > special happened - no auto mount. > > I did find reference to a file format called "usbdevfs" So, I tried out > the command "mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /target_directory". I was able to > see some directories then, but could not determine what the file types > were, and could not write to the directory. I don't even know what file > format the Mini Disk player supports (I'm guessing MP3).
Its some proprietory [surprise] format called ATRAC3, which makes it that much harder to write software which is able to convert the mp3/wav/whatever. As for usbdevfs its an extension to devfs which allows usb devices to work. I wonder if MD uses a proprietory filesystem as well, might be interesting to see someone reverse engineer it and write a kernel module. Someone should buy Linus a MD player :-D Out of curiosity, what happens if you cat /dev/dsp1? Probably nothing... You could record it analog through your line out, if you have nothing better to do for an hour... > > so, I've made some progress but not enough. Maybe the roommie's girlfriend > will just take the thing to work with her and handle it there... Then > again, I'm sure I'll need to know this sooner or later... > > Thanks for the tips, and any more are still welcomed. > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mike Fitton > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:25 AM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Sony Mini Disk player on Suse? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 09 January 2004 8:38 pm, Shawn wrote: > > I've recently installed Suse on my roommates computer. Now his > > girlfriend is whining that she can't tranfer music to her mini disk > > player. I've found a passing reference saying that I should be able to > > access it via /dev/dsp1. I've tried a mount to this device, and was told > > the device is not a block file format. So I tried "mount -t usb > > /dev/dsp1 > > /target_directory" and was told that USB is not supported with my kernel. > > I guess the first question is what is the correct what to access this > > device? It's a Sony MD-N707. > > The second question, is that if USB is a valid file format for the mount > > command, shouldn't it already be accessible through the kernel? What > > options would I need to set in "make menuconfig" to enable this option? > > Any input is appreciated. My experience with mini disk players is > > non-existent. > > I'm not sure I can help here, but I have a Fuji Camera that is run off USB. > When I hook up the cable and turn on the Camera it will "hotplug" and > automajically adds a Konqueror link to the desktop (after a few seconds it > beeps) that is already mounted and ready to browse to the device. I'm > running > SuSE 8.2 and it finds USB connections fine. I have never had to do a mount > on > the camera manually. > > I wonder if you can try to hookup the Minidisc player first, then turn it > on and see what happens?? Just a thought... > > hth > - --mike > > > - -- > GPG Fingerprint: A98F BDE4 71B3 FB68 84F6 AF50 ECD8 5AD0 FEE2 0E9A > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE//6i07Nha0P7iDpoRAmxRAJ0XsNFWxqml8GwiHNYHF86WdfEIMACeM9Yu > eM2eE09dVEyDc79ZNpQZ+to= > =bGvs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Nick W (nickw77 at shaw.ca) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 It's not our fault, we're outnumbered by stupid people ten to one. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
