Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:53:28 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach <johannes-maria@t-online.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting an MP3 player? Message-ID: <20081018165328.GA67515@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <48F9AD35.396CEE3E@t-online.de> References: <48F9AD35.396CEE3E@t-online.de>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: > > > Hello, > > can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)? > I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself. > I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick > which I can mount with a device file of the form /dev/da#s#, > e. g. /dev/da0s1, which is present after connecting the > memory stick, but not if connecting the player instead; in this > case I've got only /dev/da1 to /dev/da4. > I tried all these and also /dev/usb, /dev/usb1, ..., /dev/usb4, > but that doesn't work (as I expected but tried nevertheless). > > If I connect the player to the usb bus I get the following in > /var/log/messages: > > | kernel: umass1: TrekStor TrekStor, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 It should say more after that. Can you post it? > > > and from usblist: > > | <Generic USB SD Reader 1.00> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da1,pass0) > | <Generic USB CF Reader 1.01> at scbus1 target 0 lun 1 (da2,pass1) > | <Generic USB SM Reader 1.02> at scbus1 target 0 lun 2 (da3,pass2) > | <Generic USB MS Reader 1.03> at scbus1 target 0 lun 3 (da4,pass3) > > It looks like your player has a number of areas of storage e:g SD card, flash card, it's own internal memory etc. and they all have an associated device node: $ ls /dev | grep da You can manipulate these devices with camcontrol(8) E.g: # camcontrol stop 1:0:0 # camcontrol rescan 1:0:0 # camcontrol load 1:0:0 should initialise /dev/da0 (the SD card?) Then: # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt/dos will mount it & you can read/write files from it. When you're finished: # umount /mnt/dos # camcontrol eject 1:0:0 If you have problems, post back the signifigant parts of /var/log/messages and any other errors. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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