[SOLVED] I can't mount mp3-player with "mount"

Mr. Alex · 04-09-2011, 12:57 PM

Hello guys!
I connect my MP3-player to USB-port, /dev/sdb appears, but no /dev/sdb1, so I can't mount it (no automount in the system). Filesystem of the player seems to be FAT32. "dosfstools" and "mtools" are installed. Why is there no sdb1?

Sjonnie48 · 04-09-2011, 01:55 PM

Did you try lsusb?

stress_junkie · 04-09-2011, 01:59 PM

I would look at dmesg and /var/log/messages just after the player is connected. This will show what the kernel does. It may show details about why it doesn't detect a file system.

frankbell · 04-09-2011, 04:52 PM

I have had audio players that show as simply as /dev/sdd and mounted them successfully. I blogged the story here.

Did you create a mountpoint and have you tried putting the device in your fstab?

Mr. Alex · 04-10-2011, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sjonnie48

Did you try lsusb?

Code:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 071b:3203 Domain Technologies, Inc. Rockchip Media Player

Quote:

I would look at dmesg

After connecting:

Code:

usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb-storage 1-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 071b pid 3203: 400
scsi2 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ROCKCHIP USB MP3          1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 8081408 512-byte logical blocks: (4.13 GB/3.85 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb:
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Quote:

and /var/log/messages

Code:

Apr 10 18:31:24 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Apr 10 18:31:25 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Apr 10 18:31:25 localhost kernel: usb-storage 1-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 071b pid 3203: 400
Apr 10 18:31:25 localhost kernel: scsi2 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
Apr 10 18:31:25 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Apr 10 18:31:25 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Apr 10 18:31:25 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
Apr 10 18:31:26 localhost kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ROCKCHIP USB MP3          1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Apr 10 18:31:26 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Apr 10 18:31:26 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 8081408 512-byte logical blocks: (4.13 GB/3.85 GiB)
Apr 10 18:31:26 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Apr 10 18:31:26 localhost kernel: sdb:
Apr 10 18:31:26 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

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Did you create a mountpoint and have you tried putting the device in your fstab?

Of course I created a mountpoint, but I can't mount it since there's no partiton on sdb. And I don't know how can fstab help... Nothing to mount.

I'll read the article now.

Mr. Alex · 04-10-2011, 09:51 AM

The article helped, thanks!