I had been able to mount my sony walkman mp3 players in slakware 12.1... they politely mount on the desktop without complaining. On a new box with 12.2, they don't mount. I'm not at the linux box right now, but /var/log/messages complains about trying to read past the end of the device.

The mp3 players in question are a NWZ-S638F and and NWZ-S616F. I also tried a NWZ-E436F, it does mount properly. Has anyone else had this and come up with a workaround? I'm sure its just a minor problem that could be easily fixed by adjusting a udev rule, but what I know about that would fit in your eye...

TIA

Did you make sure to add yourself to the right groups at least plugdev so that HAL will let you mount things.

yes, i'm in the plugdev group... and a slightly different model works correctly.



Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: scsi11 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0327
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: Product: WALKMAN
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Sony
Feb 20 15:14:01 sonar kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: BEB975202712
Feb 20 15:14:06 sonar kernel: scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY WALKMAN 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Feb 20 15:14:07 sonar kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 1875968 2048-byte hardware sectors (3842 MB)
Feb 20 15:14:07 sonar kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Feb 20 15:14:07 sonar kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] 1875968 2048-byte hardware sectors (3842 MB)
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: sdc: sdc1
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: sdc: rw=0, want=4294967044, limit=7503872
Feb 20 15:14:08 sonar kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

I think it might be a problem with the FAT filesystem on it. Maybe get whatever you have on there off, and reformat the filesystem somehow.