Problem Mounting a SanDisk Sansa c250 mp3 player

[gabrielxxxi]

Hi,
I'm a newbie. I am trying to convert to Linux from Windows. I have been able to figure out most stuff, or at least found answers in the forums (like video card drivers, web cams, etc). But this is baffeling me so I need help. I just bought a SanDisk Sansa c250 mp3 player. I plugged it in to drag and drop files to it. It shows up as a removable hard drive on my desktop (which is good) but when I try to access it, I get the mount error "/etc/fstab configuration does not allow unprivileged operation". Please help and please remember I am a newbie, and some things in your help might go over my head, so please be basic (sorry).

Info about my machine: Pentium 4 2.8 prescott, 250 gig hard drive, 1 gig memory, dual monitors, nvidia video card, creative labs sound card. I am running Suse Linux 10.1, I think I have the 2.6.16.21-0.25 kernel version (not sure but I have updated the kernel a couple of times).

What baffels me is that I also have a SanDisk cruzer micro usb memory stick that has never given me a ploblem mounting in linux (its not plugged in at the moment). Please help. Thank you very much.

[Vergil83]

can you pust your /etc/fstab Are you put the mp3 player in the same usb port as the flash drive?

[gabrielxxxi]

I have tried different usb ports on this computer with the same results. I currently do not have the memory stick plugged in. the output of my fstab is this:
/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/captive-noname captive-ntfs defaults,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/captive-noname2 captive-ntfs defaults,noauto 0 0

The output of my mtab is this:
/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /home reiserfs rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=dustin 0 0

Please help if you can. Thanks again.

[kslnxusr]

I have a Sansa m240. The first time I used it it appeared in the Storage Media section of Konqueror, but since then it does not auto-mount. This is a work-around:

Open a Terminal window - K Menu -> System -> Terminal.
Login as root - Type 'su -' then enter the root password.
Plug in the mp3 player.
Type 'dmesg'. At the end should be something like this:
sd 30:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
Type 'mount /dev/sdc /mnt'

If everything works you will be able to drag and drop files to the player using Konqueror. The path will be under the root folder.

When you're finished make sure to unmount the device. From the same root terminal type 'umount /mnt'.


My problem is the device was initially mapped as /dev/sda, now it always comes in as /dev/sdc. The removable media icon always tries to mount /dev/sda and I can't delete or change it.

Hope that helps.

[gabrielxxxi]

I tried your trick, then I was told to specify fs type, so in the end, this is what I ended up with:
linux-7x4l:/home/dustin # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I was not able to mount it (My dev was sdb as listed in dmesg command). Any other suggestions? Thanks again for your help.

[kslnxusr]

Maybe the m250 is different from the m240...
I found this:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sandisk...3_players/m200

Mine has a setting (I press the menu button, then scroll to USB) called MSC, which is checked. Does your m250 have that? You might try forcing it to MSC mode which should work better with Linux.

[AlexK]

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb

try sdb1 instead. Also add yourself to the disk group and SUSE should automount it. Do this by executing this command as root:

gpasswd -a your_user_name disk

or Yast -> Security -> Users & Groups (I think)

[kslnxusr]

I don't know if this will help with your problem, but I fixed my problem this morning by restarting the haldaemon. I'm not sure why it needed to be restarted but it is the process that monitors for new or newly attached hardware. You can restart it by logging in as root and running 'service haldaemon restart', or you can run the Administrator Settings tool and look under System -> System Services.

[gabrielxxxi]

I went to the menu on the mp3 player and changed the usb settings, and then I mounted it - and it kinda worked - I could browse and pull files off of the mp3 player in the /mnt folder, but not drag and drop them in the mp3 player (in the /mnt folder). So I logged into as root and went to add my user in yast in the disk group. I must have done something else because I logged out of root and could not log in as my user, I just got a black screen and then back to the log in screen. I could log in as root, and my wifes user name, but not mine. Being hung over, I paniced, undid what I thought I did, and kept on having log in issues until I finally shut down the computer, waited, then started back up. I was then able to log in but now I'm a little nervous to try anything else until I get some paperwork done for my job. I have to set up a second hard drive with linux to completely experiment with so I can learn how not to blow up my linux system. Thanks for all of you guys help so far.