On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:23:06AM +1000, David Gillies wrote: > Does anyone out there have any recommendations for Linux friendly flash > mp3 players?
Strangely, I've had more trouble using my MP3 player with Windows. It's a Skymedia 256MB flash-based player. It uses a variant of FAT for its filesystem, meaning that I need to use its proprietary Windows software to format it (I've had no luck with mkfs.vfat on GNU/Linux). However, whenever I read/write files to/from it in Windows Explorer (XP and 2003), the filesystem becomes corrupted and it refuses to turn on. When that happens, I need to reformat it using its own software. I have no such problem in Linux, using it as a USB mass storage device. The media has finally given up on me (or so it seems), following the last time I decided to plug it into Windows. It refuses to fully turn on, telling me to reformat the media before shutting off. Its own software can no longer pick it up, and both Windows and GNU/Linux give me I/O errors when trying to access it. I've tried a range of different things, including fdisk, mkfs.vfat, dd and fdformat, but nothing works. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
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