Debian hates my mp3 player

GPGAgent · 03-21-2020, 05:59 PM

I have a Sony NW-E394 mp3 player, works fine with Linux Mint 19.3, all mp3 players are just a usb memory stick with a display and software to play the file.

You've solved your problem, but I would have just re-formatted the drive to FAT32. Don't worry about any folders on the drive, they will get recreated when you power up the player, backup the contents before formatting.

And these little players are usually extremely robust, I have a 20 year old 8gb Philips player that works like new and still has fantastic battery life.

akhilman · 01-22-2025, 10:54 AM

Provided solution stopped working after I formatted my Walkman through device menu. Linux does not recognize the player as a block device and the whole USB subsystem becomes unresponsive.
So I had to unset "max_sectors" to make the drive work somehow.

After some experimenting I found out that lowering "queue/max_sectors_kb" and "queue/max_hw_sectors_mb" also do the trick.

Here is my udev rule:

Code:

# Fixes I/O errors for Sony Corp. Walkman NWZ-B183F
ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="098d", ATTR{queue/max_sectors_kb}="60", ATTR{queue/max_hw_sectors_kb}="60"