[wplug] iRiver iFP under Linux

[Brian Roberts]

I'm currently running Mepis Linux and when I plug in my Iriver it auto 
mounts sda1 and sda3,  although when I look in those directories I see a 
ton of garbage.   After looking around the net I found a hint somewhere 
that said to mount sda4 to actually see the data on the flash. 

I believe I did some thing like this as root:
mount -t auto /dev/sda4 /mnt/mp3player 

I cheated and watched the my /etc/fstab file when the automount 
happened, and I copied it to make an sda4 entry.   The entry looks like 
this.
/dev/sda4 /mnt/mp3player auto noauto,users,sync,noatime 0 0

 I don't currently have the device in front of me, but I believe that is 
the correct mount command, I can check it when i get home. 

Hope this helps.
Brian



Nicholas Senior wrote:

>Dear Michael, 
> 
>This is a completely random email out of the blue, so I won't mind if you 
>completely ignore it... :)  I came across a message from you about upgrading 
>an iFP player to USB so you could access it under linux.  Well I did that 
>weeks ago, no problem.  However, since then, I have discovered the joys of 
>linux!  I am now entirely microsoft free!  (What a feeling!)  However, whilst 
>SUSE 9 can see that I've plugged the iRiver in, I cannot mount it or access 
>it.  The partition programme, which shows all mass-storage drives, doesn't 
>detect it at all, so something is going wrong somewhere.  I have the latest 
>USB drivers installed on the iRiver.  Do you have any ideas whatsoever as to 
>what might be wrong? 
> 
>I cannot thank you enough! 
> 
> 
>Nick 
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