mount, umount a muvo

scrawler · 2008-07-19 14:25:16

Hey guys,

I just impulse-purchased a 2gig muvo v100. It's ok. When I mount it and load it with lots of mp3s, however, it won't unmount. it just hangs forever and no mp3s are loaded. If I just try to load one or two, it takes a minute but does unmount.

Can this be fixed?

B-Con · 2008-07-20 01:04:14

Sounds like its hanging while the contents get flushed to disk. If about 10 MB (a couple mp3s) takes a minute, then a large collection of mp3s, say 1 GB, is going to take over an hour and a half.

When you umount a drive, it first sync's the filesystem buffer. Try copying files over doing a manual sync ( $ sync) to see if that takes a long time. If it does, then that's the culprit.

It might be fixable by mounting it with the -o sync option, so that everything gets written to disk without the buffer, but I don't think that'll help.

scrawler · 2008-07-21 00:08:13

I thought of that, but regular usb memory sticks don't take forever, and isn't that pretty much all this mp3 player is?

B-Con · 2008-07-21 19:04:37

As far as your computer is concerned, yes, its basically a USB drive. I didn't think that USB was malfunctioning on your machine, but rather that it could be your specific device. I would test it to make sure that its specific to sync'ing files on your device. If it is, you might want to try it with a different OS, to see if its your Arch install in specific (doubtful) or if the device is malfunctioning. You might have grounds to return it.

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#1 2008-07-19 14:25:16

mount, umount a muvo

#2 2008-07-20 01:04:14

Re: mount, umount a muvo

#3 2008-07-21 00:08:13

Re: mount, umount a muvo

#4 2008-07-21 19:04:37

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