mounting an Iriver mp3 player

[Dawes, Stephen]

Is the iriver a USB device?
If so, you'll need usb support compiled into the kernel. 
The beauty of this is, that it will automatically see the device when
you connect it and disconnect it. 

Steve Dawes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos
> Sent: 2005 April 26 11:11 AM
> To: Speakup Mailing-list
> Subject: mounting an Iriver mp3 player
> 
> Hi.  I'm trying to mount my Iriver mp3 player under Fedora 
> Core 3.  When I attach the player to the usb port I get:
> 
> SCSI device sda: 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 
> 39063024 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through Attached scsi disk 
> sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> 
> 
> So I made a directory /iriver and tried to mount it like this:
> 
> mount /dev/sda /iriver
> 
> I got the error:
> 
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> So then I tried:
> 
> mount -t auto /dev/sda /iriver
> FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> 
> Under Windows if I remember the drive was seen as a fat32 
> drive yet I'm not able to mount it with the vfat type.
> 
> Any ideas/suggestions?
> 
> 
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