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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Sansa fuse mounting?

I can't seem to mount the drive.

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           5       40162   83  Linux
/dev/sda2               6          38      265072+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              39        1313    10241437+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            1314       12161    87136560   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 4077 MB, 4077912064 bytes
126 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7812 * 512 = 3999744 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda is my hd,

/dev/sdb is the fuse, See what's wrong? The drive appears, but not the partitions. That was the output of fdisk -l.

Do you think there's a module that needs to be loaded?

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Sansa fuse mounting?

do you have fuse in proper mode
may be try
Settings → USB Mode to MSC

if in wrong mode linux wont be able to mount

i know its this way with my sansa the fuse has different hardware & software  so it may be a combination of buttons to push to change mode
which ever the case you want device to be in MSC mode
as far as partitions sandisk did some odd stuff with this so be careful you dont brick your player
check over at http://www.rockbox.org/ for more info on this device

ontweld

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2009-12-28

Posts: 6

Re: Sansa fuse mounting?

When set to wrong mode, fdisk -l won't recognize fuze at all, so it is a bit different though. if set to MSC, fdisk -l outputs 4 partitions, complaining that it doesn't look like a partition table. I noticed also that mount /dev/sdb* wont work as it usually does (assuming sdb is your fuze), so just type

mount /dev/sdb/ /mnt/sansa/

after you've made sure it is set to MSC and see if it works.

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Sansa fuse mounting?

Yeah. It just seems to be on this laptop. All my other computers (they ALL run linux) can recognize the fuse. And yes it is in the right mode. I actually posted a topic on the ubuntuforums a while back on how to get rockbox on your fuse. I have last week's svn build. Sadly, rockbox does not support USB on the fuse yet. Oh well, the original firmware works for that.