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#1 2010-08-28 23:08:39

Mecharuva
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[Solved] PSP not detected

Hey all, total Arch noob here. With the help of a few (rare) helpful Anon's over on 4chan's /g/ board, I managed to get Arch installed from the latest Core image, and I got Awesome set up as a window manager.
I'm having a few issues still, one that's bothering me quite a bit is that my PSP doesn't seem to be showing up at all, anywhere. When I plug it in and set it to USB mode, then run fdisk -l (as root), I still only see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (my hard drives), whereas on other (non-DIY) distros, it would show up at /dev/sdc.

My laptop is an Asus Eee 901:
Intel Atom N270
1GiB DDR2 RAM
4GiB Master SSD, 8GiB Slave SSD.
Intel GMA 950 (945GME or GSE or some such thing)

I know that's all most likely irrelevant, but just in case.

Last edited by Mecharuva (2010-08-29 00:47:17)

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#2 2010-08-28 23:21:40

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Re: [Solved] PSP not detected

I've never used a PSP but my guess dmesg should show some output when you plug it in.


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#3 2010-08-28 23:28:47

Mecharuva
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Re: [Solved] PSP not detected

Where do I look to know if it has made any output?
I typed 'dmesg' as root (no quotes of course) and I got a wall of text.
A very, very big wall of text.

EDIT:
I'll be damned, for some reason that I'm not aware of, it's connecting just fine now!
Closing thread then.

EDIT again:
And now the PSP has disappeared from /dev.
Yet if I unplug it and plug it back in it works again, but shows up as /dev/sdd now.

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#4 2010-08-29 00:11:42

archman-cro
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Re: [Solved] PSP not detected

Just tail some logs with

tail -f /var/log/everything.log

(use root if your user doesn't have permissions to read that file, or do 'chmod 755 /var/log/everything.log' as root)
Then plug in the PSP and turn on the usb mode. Now you should have something like this in a terminal where you tail everything.log:

Aug 29 02:05:00 localhost kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Aug 29 02:05:00 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Aug 29 02:05:00 localhost kernel: scsi2 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
Aug 29 02:05:00 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Aug 29 02:05:00 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SONY     "PSP" MS         1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 15755264 512-byte logical blocks: (8.06 GB/7.51 GiB)
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 ce 20 00
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sdb: sdb1
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 29 02:05:01 localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Now pay attention to the "sdb:sdb1" part. The "sdb1" is, in my case, the PSP node.

Now for the mounting part - I use this to get the PSP mounted:

mount -o rw,noauto,async,user,umask=1000 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb

as root.
Change "/dev/sdb1" part to whatever yours is. (Maybe sdd1? See the logs.)

You should have access to the PSP now.
Now you'll probably think "I don't want to do this stuff every time I wanna mount the PSP!!!?!?!?!!!". Well, for that, I use a keybinding. It varies depending on what window manager you're using. smile

Cheers and good night, 2:10 AM here big_smile ZZzzz

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#5 2010-08-29 00:46:47

Mecharuva
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Re: [Solved] PSP not detected

Thanks man, that's working for now. Honestly I'm thinking it's this old cable, but I don't know.
Second time I tried copying a game (before trying your mount line) it gave an input/output error, but the PSP has the game on it anyways, and it appears to work just fine... But now, using your mount line, copying a game using mv doesn't give that error and the PSP doesn't disconnect.

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#6 2010-08-29 10:20:32

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Re: [Solved] PSP not detected

Yeah, you need some of those flags after "mount", so keep using them. I have no problems that way.

PSP FTW! ;D

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