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I was trying to either get the iRiver u10 to work or find an iAudio 6 in america. It seems like no one sells the iAudio 6 outside fo the uk and asian countries, so I got the u10. An associate at the store and someone on the phone at iRiver both told me it would work in linux. I got it and...it doesn't. I emailed them and they gave me a very rude "you are wrong." response. Needless to say I am not happy with them now. The u10 has got to be the most beautiful audio player I've seen and the fact that it plays video so well (wow!) is just wonderful. I'd really like to keep from rebooting every single time I want to add music to it. Can anyone tell me if you know of a way to do that or an audio player with an interface as seamless and nice as the u10? Can anyone point me to something that lets you reincode video files for the simple profile divx encoding?

 

When I plug it in, the u10 is recognized and it seems to be trying to work. I just can't get it to mount or to transfer music files. Very strange. It shows up in harddrake, but has no module.

 

Thanks for any help in advance!

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It doesn't seem to work.. I tried that at first with the ifpgui program. It finds the device and has firmware that is compatible, but it ignores it or errors out. Is there another way to make it work or are there errors from it? Thanks for helping me! I'm kind-of new to this usb stuff.

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IIRC that should be mountable as a usb storage device. If the device is showing up in harddrake, that's almost surely the case. Try connecting the device and power it on then run this in a console:

 

$ su

<Enter root password>

# fdisk -l

 

Post the output here. Also post your /etc/fstab file here with the device connected and powered on.

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the output of fdisk -l is:

dee]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *		   1		2016	16193488+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2			2017	   19929   143886172+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5			2017		2219	 1630566   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6			2220	   19929   142255543+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *		   1	   24791   199133676	7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *		   1	   24600   197599468+   b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/sdc: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1			   1	   36483   293049666	c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

 

That doesn't show the device anywhere that I see. It would be an sdsomething but it just doesn't show up. In hard drake it shows up under scanner and Unknown/Others. Does that help?

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I assume sda(203.9 Gb) and sdc(300 Gb) are sata drives; correct me if that's wrong. Also, post your /etc/fstab; I'm trying to get some idea of your hardware layout.

 

If this thing can be detected as a usb storage device, then you must first have certain usb modules loaded. You can see what modules are loaded by running this as root:

 

# lsmod

 

look for the usb-storage module. If it's not there, no usb storage devices will be detected. To load it run:

 

# modprobe usb-storage

 

You can check with lsmod to make sure it's loaded and try your fdisk -l command again and see if the device is picked up. If it is you're half way home.

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It doesn't load as a usb storage drive regretfully. I did more looking. Unless you know how to get mtp working in linux (there's a driver but I can't ever make it compile), it won't work. It doesn't use the normal transfer methods. Instead, it's windows "Plays For Sure"..... another way for them to try and lock everyone else out. Awesome player, but just not compatible yet it seems...until an open source mtp is released. :(

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