I mounted it 'ro' as vfat and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/plr# mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/plr# ls -l /mnt/mp3 total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2000-10-30 14:45 fm drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2004-12-13 05:43 music -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 438 2000-10-30 14:45 settings.dat drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2000-10-30 14:45 voice [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/plr# ls -l /mnt/mp3/music/ total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-01-11 09:52 AmandaMarshall drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-12-13 05:47 AmiStewart drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-01-11 09:56 LisaStansfield drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-01-11 10:09 PaulaAbdul drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-11-27 18:35 Santana [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/plr# cp -a /mnt/mp3/music/AmandaMarshall/audio_* . cp: reading `/mnt/mp3/music/AmandaMarshall/audio_01.mp3': Input/output error
So, it didn't seem to make much of a difference, as I by this only got: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16384 2006-09-08 18:56 audio_01.mp3* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2006-09-08 18:57 audio_02.mp3* Attempting to mount it as 'msdos' instead of 'vfat' didn't seem to make much of a difference: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114688 2006-09-08 19:19 audio_01.mp3* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2006-09-08 19:24 audio_02.mp3* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/plr# mount -t msdos -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mp3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/plr# cp -a /mnt/mp3/music/amanda~1/* . cp: reading `/mnt/mp3/music/amanda~1/audio_01.mp3': Input/output error The debug /var/log/debug file is filled up with attempts and reattempts to access the device. If you would like to have a look I'll post them. I don't think we should make Linux behave like XP, but perhaps if XP has a way to deal with this device so it works, we might also be able to make it? Any ideas or suggestions are welcome, and I'll see what I can do. Peter Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Peter Rasmussen wrote: > > >> OK, I know there is a lot of cr^H^Hno-good devices in the USB market. >> > > That's putting it mildly! :-) > > >> I do however, with this particular device remember that I at one time >> had this device working with my Linux desktop, and I believe it was >> early to middle 2.4'ish, but even then I remember that it was very >> fickle. I could only mount it as 'msdos' (not vfat) and I could only do >> one thing at a time (eg. removing old files or copying new files over) >> before rebooting it, otherwise it would freeze. >> > > About like I saw (although the device I had could be mounted okay as > vfat). I have trouble even imagining what sort of firmware peculiarities > could cause these behaviors. It's as though they went out of their way to > make the device hard-to-use. > > >> On my PC at work with WinXP I can with no specific software remove and >> copy files over without any problem, and I can see that it mounts is as >> vfat because I can for example create files with upper/lower case. >> >> Should I investigate which 2.4 kernel it was that I could use it with? I >> am not sure about what the binutils and other supporting software was, >> but if you think it would be useful I'll see if I can find the right >> combination again. >> > > I don't think there's much point. Any significant changes in the kernel > since the 2.4 days are not likely to be undone, for any reason. Nor is > the kernel likely to be changed in any major respect to make it behave > more like Windows XP. > > Does the device work any better if you mount it read-only? Obviously this > would defeat the purpose of maintaining the files on the device. But if > it worked then at least we would have a small clue. > > >> I have had enough bad experiences reg. contacting HW manufacturers about >> Linux support of their devices, so I stopped doing that some time ago (I >> started using Linux in 1993, and funny enough, it has never really >> become easier to change their minds about starting to provide info or >> support for something they didn't already, and they couldn't care less >> about a potential consumer threating *not* to buy their product, sigh!). >> > > An all-too-common experience, unfortunately. > > Alan Stern > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
