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sphere101

Member

Registered: 2017-08-04

Posts: 42

Sony Walkman NW-A55

Hello,
Im trying to mount my sony walkman on arch linux. After plugging it in via usb , the device runs "USB Mass Storage Archive"
Here are the messages in arch

[920812.059976] usb 1-13: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[920812.200370] usb 1-13: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0ca0, bcdDevice= 1.00
[920812.200374] usb 1-13: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
[920812.200375] usb 1-13: Product: WALKMAN
[920812.200376] usb 1-13: Manufacturer: Sony
[920812.200377] usb 1-13: SerialNumber: 104588F5530017

[root@thor dev]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f9:0429 Brother Industries, Ltd HL-L2395DW series
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 054c:0ca0 Sony Corp. WALKMAN
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

However, there is no device appearing on the system to mount..
[root@thor dev]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0                  
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: C59DEAA1-EE98-412C-A5FB-712C5FA81224

Device             Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048     923647    921600   450M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p2    923648    1128447    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p3   1128448    1161215     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p4   1161216  306119227 304958012 145.4G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p5 306120704  307199999   1079296   527M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p6 307202048 1000215182 693013135 330.5G Linux LVM


Disk /dev/sda: 7.28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD80EMAZ-00W
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: BB02C763-658D-4168-9983-A70499A88C21

Device     Start         End     Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 15628053134 15628051087  7.3T Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdb: 7.28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD80EMAZ-00W
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7828322C-81F5-4C7F-9329-3DCA39CFFE5F

Device     Start         End     Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1   2048 15628053134 15628051087  7.3T Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdc: 7.28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD80EFAX-68L
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 9622A491-43DE-427F-A7D7-CB910ED993B6

Device     Start         End     Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdc1   2048 15628053134 15628051087  7.3T Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdd: 7.28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD80EFAX-68L
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 091BB98E-F3E8-4257-A0F3-D813FAA694AB

Device     Start         End     Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdd1   2048 15628053134 15628051087  7.3T Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/mapper/archvol-root: 100 GiB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/archvol-swap: 32 GiB, 34359738368 bytes, 67108864 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/archvol-home: 198.45 GiB, 213087420416 bytes, 416186368 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Any thoughts??

Last edited by sphere101 (2021-03-13 15:14:17)

paulkerry

Member

From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: Sony Walkman NW-A55

I have no idea what protocols that device uses, but perhaps try MTP?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Me … r_Protocol

pacman -S gvfs-mtp

which should automatically install libmtp.