I'm trying to mount my iRiver T30 so I can actually use it.
I'm running Debian Etch, and so far I've tried as su:

# mkdir /media/iriver
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/iriver

what it seems to do is mirror my hardrive at the location /media/iriver

Any suggestions?

When I do get this working properly, what would be a good program to move mp3's on to my T30?

Thanks in advance,
Barnes

Do you have an SATA hard drive? Do you know for sure that the kernel is referring to your device as /dev/sda? See what dmesg says. Also, you need to mount partitions, e.g. /dev/sda1 and not /dev/sda. Edit, as for moving stuff to your device, well there's mv or cp!

I do have a SATA hard drive. I did dmesg, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for?

Barnes.

You should see lines relating to your device after plugging it in. Post the last ~ 10-15 lines of the output here.

Here are the last few lines:

ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[drm] Initialized i915 1.5.0 20060119 on minor 0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 3-1: device not accepting address 4, error -71
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 3-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71

Is there no more output?

There is lots more output. I'd venture to say at least 100 lines. But those are the last few lines. It's a bit much to post here I think.

Is there nothing like

sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb

Post your "fdisk -l" (lowercase L, not a 1).

There's the following:

sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
usb 5-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 5-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 5-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 5-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 5-5: can't restore configuration #1 (error=-32)
sd 2:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
....
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
usb-storage: device scan complete
NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
JFS: nTxBlock = 7084, nTxLock = 56674

At the time the iRiver was connected and on, plus an iPod that was charging but previously unmounted.

Can you mount /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdb2?

try this as root, type

tail -f /var/log/messages

next, plug in your player

when you plug in the device, the kernel will append new lines pertaining to your device. Post the output ( new lines ) you get.

PS. After searching around with google. It seems this device does not use the Mass Storage protocol, like the earlier iriver models. The protocol your model uses is called MTP
which is use by windows media player.

Most of the searches recommend updating the firmware. Sometimes this helps. But be careful, updating a firmware can also be risky. If done incorrectly, the device could be inoperable.

Amarok, Banshee, Rhythmbox

Banshee is not very good, though..