Re: Problems with Sony MZ-NH 900 Hi-MD walkman

Mannr_at_uwaterloo.ca
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: 12 Oct 2004 19:15:40 -0400

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:25:26 +0200, Jean Pierre Wenzel staggered into
> the Black Sun and said:
> > I recently got a Sony MZ-NH 900 Hi-MD walkman that can be used as a
> > USB storage device. It is possible to put data on it under Windows
> > but unfortunately, the device is recognized correctly as a usb-storage
> > device but syslog tells me that the device has no proper partition
> > table.
>
> So? Just mount the entire device, then. These things are usually
> partitioned, but they don't *have* to be.
>
> > Has anyone already been able to get a Hi-MD device to work under
> > UNIX/Linux?
>
> Have you *tried* to mount the entire device? Do that first. If that
> fails, post the exact error message you get, along with the exact output
> of dmesg that relates to the USB subsystem.
>
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Mounting the entire device, eg., /dev/sda, works fine.

Note that you won't be able to use audio files on your computer or vice versa.
Sony has its own (secret and probably encrypted) file structure for audio.

  Richard

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