mounting an MP3 player?

dgmm freebsd01 at dgmm.net
Sun Oct 19 07:11:33 PDT 2008


On Saturday 18 October 2008, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)?
> I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself.
> I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick
> which I can mount with a device file of the form /dev/da#s#,
> e. g. /dev/da0s1, which is present after connecting the
> memory stick, but not if connecting the player instead; in this
> case I've got only /dev/da1 to /dev/da4.
> I tried all these and also /dev/usb, /dev/usb1, ..., /dev/usb4,
> but that doesn't work (as I expected but tried nevertheless).
>
> If I connect the player to the usb bus I get the following in
>
> /var/log/messages:
> | kernel: umass1: TrekStor TrekStor, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
>
> and from usblist:
> | <Generic USB SD Reader 1.00>       at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da1,pass0)
> | <Generic USB CF Reader 1.01>       at scbus1 target 0 lun 1 (da2,pass1)
> | <Generic USB SM Reader 1.02>       at scbus1 target 0 lun 2 (da3,pass2)
> | <Generic USB MS Reader 1.03>       at scbus1 target 0 lun 3 (da4,pass3)
>
> and from usbdevs:
> | Controller /dev/usb4:
> | addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000),
> | Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 port 1 powered
> |  port 2 powered
> |  port 3 powered
> |  port 4 powered
> |  port 5 powered
> |  port 6 addr 2: high speed, power 400 mA, config 1, TrekStor(0x2791),
> | TrekStor(0x071b), rev 1.00 port 7 powered
> |  port 8 powered
>
> Which device file should I use (or create?) to get access
> to this MP3 player?
>
> (I'm using FreeBSD 6.0)

Have you tried just mounting da0 etc?  The may not be any slices.




-- 
Dave


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list