Having trouble mounting Iriver H10 20gig [Solved]

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PseudoKrazy · Post by **PseudoKrazy** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:37 am

Hey, I am having some trouble getting any usb drives to mount, specifically, my iriver h10 (the 20 gig one). I know there are several other posts on this, but i still cant get the darn thing to mount. I have everything that should be compiled into the kernel there: usb mass storage, ehci_hdc, scsi, vfat, etc. when i plug my iriver in, the following comes up in dmesg,

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trosh-hole arp # dmesg | tail
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

It even shows up with a lsusb

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trosh-hole arp # lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 4102:2101 iRiver, Ltd. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

However, whenever I try to mount it, I get this error:

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trosh-hole arp # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/iriver
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

And I have tried every /dev/sd*1 in /dev... I also tried mounting it in the vanilla-sources to see if that would change anything, but to no avail. Is there anything I missed? should i be trying to mount this as /dev/sda1? I also just emerged hotplug and added it to the default run level to see if that would fix it, but that didnt work either (not really sure how to configure that... or what its supposed to do o.O). Any help would be appreciated, as I am at a loss for ideas, and really would like to throw some songs on my Iriver.

PseudoKrazy · Post by **PseudoKrazy** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:12 pm

I hate bumping/replying to my own threads, but I still havent fixed this, and really need some help.

ChemicalGold · Post by **ChemicalGold** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:34 pm

Is coldplug running actually?

I allways do

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# emerge coldplug
# rc-update add coldplug default

PseudoKrazy · Post by **PseudoKrazy** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:56 pm

Yes it is.

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trosh-hole arp # rc-update show
                  ...
            coldplug |      default                    
                  ...
             hotplug |      default
                  ...

What device in /dev am i supposed to be trying to mout? /dev/sda1, right?

ChemicalGold · Post by **ChemicalGold** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:30 pm

I allways mount my iAudio U2 at /dev/sda1, I supose that it'll be the same for iRiver

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# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/iaudio

EDIT: Try to upgrade/downgrade udev (just the first thing that crossed my head). I'm sorry I can't be more helpfull

EDIT 2: Check your fstab, it should look like this:

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/dev/sda1             /mnt/iaudio   vfat      noauto,user,noexec     0 0

tomas.rollo · Post by **tomas.rollo** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:30 pm

I'm occasionally having similar problems with my USB flash stick, if I plug it in, kernel recognizes it, but I got the very same error on mounting.

I have to do:

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#mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbstick
-- of course this fails, but
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
-- works fine afterwards

it's as if the /dev/sda1 device was not created until I hit /dev/sda with the mount command

xenoscr · Post by **xenoscr** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:41 pm

If you do:

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$ fdisk -l

It should how all the drives that can be fdisked. Does you device show up in that list?

XeNoSCR

Psych0 · Post by **Psych0** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:27 pm

I don't know about PseudoKrazies, but my iriver t10 don't.

Looking at /proc/bus/usb/devices I find Driver=(none) a little discouraging.

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=4102 ProdID=1113 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=iriver Limited
S: Product=iriver T10
S: SerialNumber=§¿ã
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 64 Ivl=4096ms

Comparing that to a usb-stick which generates Driver=usb-storage

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 4 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0d7d ProdID=1600 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=
S: Product=USB DISK 20X
S: SerialNumber=074B1A13005E
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=200mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 64 Ivl=1ms

Looking at /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap and usb.handmap is seems like if we could figure out what to put in hand.map we could get the little suckers to pick up the usb-storage driver. I started trying to figure it out last night. but didn't get very far...

--glenn

PseudoKrazy · Post by **PseudoKrazy** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:10 pm

Psych0 wrote: Looking at /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap and usb.handmap is seems like if we could figure out what to put in hand.map we could get the little suckers to pick up the usb-storage driver. I started trying to figure it out last night. but didn't get very far...

Well, keep me informed so I can mount this damn thing. Thanks.

krolden · Post by **krolden** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:20 pm

What tomas.rollo said works. I had the same problem as you. I did (as root):

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#/etc/init.d/coldplug stop
#/etc/init.d/coldplug start
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbstick/
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick/

I hadn't emerged coldplug yet. I started the coldplug service after I had inserted the usbstick into the slot. I added it to boot with rc-update.

MrSandman666 · Post by **MrSandman666** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:42 pm

Just wanted to chime in since I had the same problem until just about an hour ago.
What did it for me was:

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# emerge unmerge hald dbus coldplug hotplug udev
# emerge coldplug hotplug udev

You could probably re-emerge hald and dbus as well but I didn't want them. I just tried them out to see whether they fixed my problem, which they didn't, so I threw them out while I was at it. However, the unmerge followed by the emerge did the trick for me. Just re-emerging didn't help, had to unmerge first.

Good luck...

PseudoKrazy · Post by **PseudoKrazy** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:17 am

Well, I finally solved the problem. It turns out that everything was set correctly as far as my kernel modules, udev config, etc etc goes. However, it turns out that Iriver signed some evil pact with microsoft, enabling the device to only work with the latest version of MS media player (10 or something? who really cares, eh?). Anyhow, there is a cheap hack, the "UMS trick", as it is called.

1. Plug your H10 into the USB port
2. Press and hold the circle button
3. While holding the button, unplug and quickly re-plug the USB cable.

Either end of the cable should work, the trick works because the H10 reboots itself whenever the cable is unplugged. As it boots up again, it notices circle is pressed and boots to UMS.

After doing that, my Iriver mounted right away, and i was able to read and write to it without a hitch. All i have to say, is that its a damn shame I have to do that to get the thing to mount right... Hopefully this will save anyone else who buys an H10 (20 gig) the same hassle.

Darknight · Post by **Darknight** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:15 am

Does the trick work for other iriver models too?
I like iriver because of ogg compatibility, however these problems are scaring me

MrSandman666 · Post by **MrSandman666** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:44 am

Actually, my iRiver H120 (which went out of production this spring) works like a charm. The problem I was refering to in my above post was concerning *all* usb storage devices, not just my iRiver. The H120 works just like a usb harddrive, no drivers and no tricks needed. Of course I can't speak for the newer models.

PyroBor · Post by **PyroBor** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:59 pm

these posts gave me second thoughts about buying H10 (20GB). annoying to do that trick evrytime you want to mount it... there isn't any other way ?

or maybe anybody knows any other good mp3 hard disk player?