I bought a Sansa Sandisk e250 (2gb) mp3 player, and I haven't been able to recognize it through its usb port. Does anyone know how I can get it to mount? -- Lunatic Asylum, n.: The place where optimism most flourishes.
On Saturday 02 September 2006 06:04, Tim Hanson wrote:
I bought a Sansa Sandisk e250 (2gb) mp3 player, and I haven't been able to recognize it through its usb port. Does anyone know how I can get it to mount?
Google "linux Sansa Sandisk e250" There are some hints here: http://daniel.haxx.se/sansa/e200.html That's for the e200, but it might be useful for the e250 as well. Google "mount Sandisk e250 under linux" http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/23/1337231 Someone claims to have mounted it with Linux: "The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card." -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
Thanks. It turns out that the key was going into "Settings" and changing the USB mode. I also found out that sequence is important. One must turn off the player, connect the cable, then turn on the player. In this mode it shows "Disconnected" for a few seconds, which changes to "connected." The directory turns up as "Sansa_e250." I'll keep an eye on Rockbox for news of his success at a Linux port. From what I hear, only a couple of players and a CD from Sansa were provided. He has to reverse engineer the boot loader.
mount Sandisk e250 under linux
"The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card."
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Thanks for the URL. I got my computer to find the device. I ripped a bunch of CDs with grip, each CD ripped to an mp3 in a directory with the name of each CD. There's also a text file with the suffix "*.m3u" for each CD, listing its contents. I copied all the newly created directories to that drive. The songs play and everything, but they are not grouped. They appear in the display as a long list in alphabetical order. In the "Album" section are two choices: "Unknown" and "Play All." I was kind of expecting to see my directories as albums, like when they appeared on the hard drive of my computer. I keep thinking if I put the .m3u files somewhere the player will read them and order accordingly. Unfortunately, I don't have a native Windows computer or I would copy a test album to figure out how they order things. I have a VMware Windows instance, but it won't recognize the player at all, in either mode. Rats. I have an old laptop I could load with the Windows install disks, but its been some years since I've known exactly where those disks are. I also sent an email to daniel, who seems to be the one working on the Rockport Linux OS for the thing. I guess my next plan is to copy just one album to the player and experiment from there. If anyone has some concrete knowledge or even any ideas, I'd sure like to hear them.
On Saturday 02 September 2006 06:04, Tim Hanson wrote:
I bought a Sansa Sandisk e250 (2gb) mp3 player, and I haven't been able to recognize it through its usb port. Does anyone know how I can get it to mount?
"The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card."
-- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
On Monday 04 September 2006 16:13, Tim Hanson wrote:
Unfortunately, I don't have a native Windows computer or I would copy a test album to figure out how they order things. I have a VMware Windows instance, but it won't recognize the player at all, in either mode. Rats. I have an old laptop I could load with the Windows install disks, but its been some years since I've known exactly where those disks are.
For VMware you may have to go into /etc/fstab and change usbfs from noauto to auto. Easiest to reboot after that or do an init 1 and then init 5. VMware relies on the old /proc/usb/devices format. That should change in the future. At least this has given several us working USB in VMware. Stan
On Saturday 02 September 2006 06:04, Tim Hanson wrote:
I bought a Sansa Sandisk e250 (2gb) mp3 player, and I haven't been able to recognize it through its usb port. Does anyone know how I can get it to mount?
"The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card."
After lots and lots of playing around, I finally got my E250 to play my mp3s and, just as importantly, to properly sort the tracks into albums. Thank you for giving me a couple of pieces to the puzzle. The Sansa E200 series, of which the largest just released is 8gb, is getting very popular as an alternative to iPod. It is also known as Linux-friendly, but some tweaking is necessary. Would it be possible for me to go through the whole process, step by step, and add what I just learned to the knowledge base? Something like this might help someone. -- There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
On Thursday 07 September 2006 07:05, Tim Hanson wrote:
The Sansa E200 series, of which the largest just released is 8gb, is getting very popular as an alternative to iPod. It is also known as Linux-friendly, but some tweaking is necessary. Would it be possible for me to go through the whole process, step by step, and add what I just learned to the knowledge base? Something like this might help someone.
I'm sure it would, and I'm sure it would be very appreciated by everyone. This is the whole idea behind having a wiki: you don't need to wait for someone official to do it for you. You can just add an article yourself. Just go to opensuse.org.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:05:46PM -0700, Tim Hanson wrote:
On Saturday 02 September 2006 06:04, Tim Hanson wrote:
I bought a Sansa Sandisk e250 (2gb) mp3 player, and I haven't been able to recognize it through its usb port. Does anyone know how I can get it to mount?
"The player has two modes. One mode is like an external USB drive and supports MP3's. That should work just fine for Linux. Two drives will show. One is the internal memory and the other is the SD card."
After lots and lots of playing around, I finally got my E250 to play my mp3s and, just as importantly, to properly sort the tracks into albums. Thank you for giving me a couple of pieces to the puzzle.
The Sansa E200 series, of which the largest just released is 8gb, is getting very popular as an alternative to iPod. It is also known as Linux-friendly, but some tweaking is necessary. Would it be possible for me to go through the whole process, step by step, and add what I just learned to the knowledge base? Something like this might help someone.
Is the other mode perhaps MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) ? Ciao, Marcus
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