iriver h20 and kubuntu
 

I have an iriver h20. When I plug it into my usb port the computer recognises it. It can open the device up in a new folder. I can read the data off it - whatever type it has on it. But unfortunately I can't write to the mp3 player. Does anyone know how I can set it so I can write to the iriver's hard drive.

Thank you.

What I do with my portable music player (iAudio X5) is add a line to /etc/fstab like:

Here '/home/music/iaudio' is the mountpoint, where my regular user has write permissions. The 'user' option means my regular user can mount it.

That worked. Thank you!

One further question on this... How do I allow the user to unmount it? When I come to unplug the device it says it requires root access.

Odd.

If you can mount it, you should also be able to unmount...
Are you trying 'umount /dev/sda1' or 'umount /some/path'?
Perhaps you need to use the mountpoint and not the device.

Hi,

I'm really sorry for replying sooner. I didn't get notification of your reply.

I have another problem now, unfortunately. After a reboot its failing to mount the device. It says that it cannot mount the device because /home/music/iaudio doesn't exist. Do you have any advice on what I can do to resolve this.

I greatly appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Merlyn

Maybe this is too late, but to solve the first problem (able to mount but not unmount) change "user" to "users" in the fstab line.

For the second problem, does /home/music/iaudio exist? If not, try creating it. Do you have access to /home/music? if not, you'll have to change the permissions.