Can't Mount my MP3 player

[Mark Williams40]

I have a 40 GB Goodmans HDD MP3 player.

When I plug it into the USB socket, Fedora detects it & it shows on the desktop.

However if I click on the icon to try & open it, I get an error box saying "Unable to mount volume"

Any suggestions?

Please bear in mind I am a Linux dummie.

The MP3 player works fine if I connect it to a Windows PC so it's not the MP3 player that's broken.

Thanks in advance

[machin]

would you please plug in the drive and do in a terminal with root privileges this command : fdisk -l
and paste the result.

thank you

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[Mark Williams40]

Originally Posted by machin

would you please plug in the drive and do in a terminal with root privileges this command : fdisk -l
and paste the result.

thank you

I don't understand what "do in a terminal with root privileges" means. Sorry - dummie

I opened terminal & pasted the command you said & got this:

[mark@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
[mark@localhost ~]$

Doesn't seem to tell us much

[machin]

login as root first and then run that command after plugin in yout MP3 player

[sidebrnz]

OK, here's what you do. Plug the MP3 player in and wait for it to show up on your desk top. Click on Applications->System Tools->Terminal. In the terminal type:

su
(Give the root password when prompted. You won't see anything on the screen as you type, but don't worry.)
/sbin/fdisk -l

Copy the output and paste it into a followup message to this. After you've done that, you can simply close the terminal without any problems.

[HuntrRose]

I have a similar problem, but not entirely. I can browse my MP3 player fine, and move files back and forth. But after copying media files onto it, the player don't find and recognize them. When I used windows this worked, and I loved moving media this way, instead of using a specific program for it.

Did the fdisk -l but it didn't show there, but what the heck, here it is anyway:

[root@grendellap ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x851e36ef

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1275    10240000   83  Linux
/dev/sda2   *        1275        1301      204800   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1301       30401   233751201   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 235.1 GB, 235149459456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 28588 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 4211 MB, 4211081216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 511 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

adding lsusb:

[root@grendellap ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 041e:4157 Creative Technology, Ltd Zen (MTP)

and...

[root@grendellap ~]# dmesg | tail -7
usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=041e, idProduct=4157
usb 2-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-5: Product: Creative ZEN
usb 2-5: Manufacturer: Creative Technology Ltd
usb 2-5: SerialNumber: 02030000195AE0150002D365BE89E015
usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Now, using Gnomad2 works, but I'd still like this to work as well, so any help would be lovely. Thanks.

P.S. Running F11, fully up to date.

[sidebrnz]

I have an older player with that problem. However, I found that there's a file on the player that contains a playlist, and if I deleted that, the player would rebuild it when I turned it on, including any new files I'd added.

[HuntrRose]

Tried Clean Up (from the players recovery menu) and a complete rebuild, no luck. Seems it registers the copy as a pure datacopy and not a media transfer.

[HuntrRose]

Found this thread which may fix it: clickety