Trying to mount USB MP3 storage key (128Mb)
 

I have tried successfully to mount several drives....but I'm trying to mount a USB 1.1 Mp3 player I have. It's a RCA Lyra with 128Mb onboard.

I made a mount point at /mnt/usbkey.

I'm simply trying to mount it as:

mount /dev/ttyUSB1 /mnt/usbkey -t vfat -r

The problem is that I don't know which one in /dev/usb/.... should be used... there are loads , ie ttyUSB0, dausbb1 etc...

I know the 128Mb is FAT 16 on the player... so I gave it vfat.

It must be the /dev/xxx part that is throwing it off ?

Anyone with any ideas? Or maybe some other way to "proc" it?
I tried rebooting to see if it would spot it but nope. Also the players shows me "connected" when it is plugged in (good).

*** Oops. I better say I have RH8 kernel 2.4.18-14. :p

If your device is considered a USB mass storage device it will be /dev/sda1. You can check the RH hardware GUI to confirm. If you still can't mount check the output of /sbin/lsmod to see if all of the USB modules are being loaded.
usbcore
usb-uhci
scsi_mod
usb-storage

Michaelk,

Thanks for that. I'll give it a whirl and let ya know how I get on... dum-dum-dee..... :)

Oh yes...this looks good...

in the hardware browser I can see:

/dev/sda...

sda1 1 1022 122 FAT

That 122 is referring to the 128Mb internal memory. Hope it mounts... oh much goodness! :)

michaelk,

The browser also told me the name of player too! Cool!

All named modules are loaded.

So I did a mount:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey -t usbfs -rw

Ok. so I "cd /mnt/usbkey"...
ls and I get:
001 (dir) 002 (dir) devices drivers

hmmm?

cd 001
001 and 003 again (cat these and it tries to xterm)

If I cat the "devices" file above I get this in the output:

S: Manufacturer=Thomson multimedia Inc.
S: Product=RCA RD1080 Personal Digital Player



T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=1820
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=1800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=069b ProdID=3004 Rev= 0.01
S: Manufacturer=Thomson multimedia Inc.
S: Product=RCA RD1080 Personal Digital Player
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=300mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms


May I need to alter the mount some how? :) surely must be usbfs

Wahey!
 

Have it!

Should be:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey -t vfat -rw

instead of mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey -t usbfs -rw.


Ok, My thompson usb 128Mb Lyca player is set up as follows:

1. mkdir /mnt/usbkey
2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey -t vfat -rw

cool! Thanks michaelk! Great Help! Another conquest! :D :p :D

Btw, this player encodes .mp3 as .mpy. Basically a header that scrambles the .mp3 just in case I might d/l onto someone's machine later. Sheeesh! But that's Musicmatch/Lyca for you.