CC Witness no longer mounts on 14.2 64 (USB / XFCE) - How to compensate?
Hey guys & gals - Thanks in advance for any help. This is a weird one to me and I have no idea where to go with it.
First, this used to work under 14.1 (I recently upgraded) - it seems to be unique to this particular hardware) The hardware is a CC Witness (C. Crane Co). Basically, it is an MP3 player/recorder with a slot for an SD Card, and it also has an AM/FM Radio). I use it to hold workout music for the gym, and podcasts on the SD Card). I keep the contents of both backed up on my home directory in slack, and have scripts to manage the contents). Now, previously when I wanted to update the contents of the CC Witness, I'd plug it in thru a USB cable and it would "automount" to my XFCE desktop as /run/media/<user>/<label> (2 mounts: one for the "internal" directory, and one for the SD card). For the record that is still the behavior when I plug in any other USB device that I've tried (pendrives and such). So, recently a friend emailed me a reference to a podcast, which I was going to transfer to the CC Witness, and listen to at the gym. I plugged in the CC Witness and apparently nothing (although the CC Witness reported that it was connected). So, what research have I done before coming here. 1. while the CC Witness was plugged in, I fired up GParted, which reported 2 new devices ( /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc ), each with one partition. 2. I opened up a root console, and tried the following: Code:
fdisk -l Code:
mount -t auto -o umask=000 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp Code:
Jun 14 10:12:02 igloo kernel: [ 7915.254177] usb 4-1.2: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci Code:
root@igloo:~# mount -t auto -o umask=000 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/floppy Code:
modprobe -v xhci-hcd Again, thanks in advance |
First guess is that it is related to the USB. Maybe just simply replacing the cable, but it could also be the USB port or the controller inside the device. Does the SD card mount normally if you pull it out of the device and use a different SD card reader?
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Thank you - partial solution.
I hadn't even thought of the cable. And I actually don't have another; it's USB on one end, but something unique on the CC Witness side. (although I just got on C.Crane's website and ordered a couple replacement cables - it's cheap if that's the issue - and it easily could be, the current cable is indeed over 10 years old). It has also been years since I removed the SD Card, but I did, and popped it into the SD slot in my Thinkpad, and it showed up as /run/media/<usr>/<label> as before. I mounted it, transferred the new podcast, and plugged it back into the CC Witness, which proceeded to find and use it just fine. Hopefully when the new cables arrive, I'll be able to report a complete success; currently the workout music on the CC Witness (non-SD) is usable on the device, but I can't update that - Oh, well for now. Thanks again - immediate difficulty has a workaround. |
Update - but no change yet
Well, the new USB cable showed up. But it behaves the same as before. <<sigh>>. Since then I attempted to plug the CC Witness into a Win7 instance. It found 2 USB Storage Devices, but claimed they were unusable and would need to be formatted. Didn't do that, of course. It would be doubly pointless, as the backup copies of the contents are stored on an ext4 file system.
So, I'm back to asking if anyone has any ideas on where to go from here. I had one thought; that I use GParted to generate a UUID for the "internal" (sdb1 in previous post, it currently doesn't report one) and create an fstab entry for it (my current fstab has entries like that I use to specify backup drives that I don't always mount). I'm a little leery of doing this, in case it would render the CC Witness unusable. It plays its current set just fine. But it's an idea. |
A UUID for the partition will already exist (or at least some variant of a UUID). You can view them using ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/ or lsblk -o +UUID, but those entries are just pointers to the /dev/sdb1 (or whatever your device is) and likely wouldn't make any difference in mounting the device.
I hate to say it, but it sounds like the USB controller on the device is going out. |
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I'll probably hold off on the replacement for a while yet, tho. |
Moved to New Hardware - problem solved
Well, I broke down and purchased a new 'CC Witness Plus' - which arrived the other day. The original (desired) behavior is back. When plugged in the new device mounts as /run/media/<user>/<label>. When I insert my SD-Card with the podcasts into its SD Slot, and re-attach the USB cable, both devices (internal and SD-Card) show up on my XFCE Desktop.
I loaded the new device with my archived workout music - which it plays just fine. So, I'm marking this issue solved. Trying to decide what to do with the partially broken old device, but that's not an issue for this forum. Thx for your help, @bassmadrigal |
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