If the Sony software doesn't work in wine you're pretty much screwed unless someone figures out how to reverse engineer it (and survives the resulting lawyer hordes). The Net MD devices aren't anything approaching a standard usb mass storage device. In typical Sony fashion they don't use a vfat file system and they don't play MP3, only a proprietary Sony format called ATRAC (that is encrypted to boot!).
Regards, ~Scott 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). > > 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 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
