I am having a problem with my iRiver 899-T mp3 player with recent kernels. The
last good kernel that worked flawlessly with this device was the 2.6.11 series.
I need the more recent kernels for lots of other driver fixes to work with my
computer (onboard ethernet finally works, etc). But this one last issue
plagues me.
The iRiver uses usb_storage like tons of other devices. Yet my Nikon camera
and a USB flash drive seem to work fine but this iRiver broke after 2.6.11.x
If I write several files to the device, it will start to break the filesystem
via cross linking files. The initial symptoms that caught my attention:
* listening to a song and it gets cut short and the iRiver just immediately
jumps to the next song.
* listening to song A and it jumped to song B mid stream yet the file it says
it is playing says A.
I hooked it up to an XP laptop and ran a chkdsk on it. I get lots of errors
now.
F:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is FAT.
Volume IRIVER created 2/6/2006 1:08 PM
Volume Serial Number is 20E6-A088
Windows is verifying files and folders...
Windows found errors on the disk, but will not fix them
because disk checking was run without the /F (fix) parameter.
The \Symphonic_Pink_Floyd\09-Us_and_Them.mp3 entry contains a nonvalid link.
The size of the \Symphonic_Pink_Floyd\09-Us_and_Them.mp3 entry is not valid.
\The_First_Day\05-20th_Century_Dreaming_(A_Shamans_Song).mp3 is cross-linked
on
allocation unit 31978.
Cross link resolved by copying.
The size of the \Gildersleeve\6\Gildersleeve_48-03-24_281 Adeline Wants To
Visit
Jolly Boys.mp3 entry is not valid.
\David_Sylvian\03-Before_the_Bullfight.mp3 is cross-linked on allocation
unit 11
451.
Cross link resolved by copying.
\David_Sylvian\12-Home.mp3 is cross-linked on allocation unit 23786.
Cross link resolved by copying.
File and folder verification is complete.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? n
18202624 bytes of free disk space would be added.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
1,048,297,472 bytes total disk space.
1,015,808 bytes in 62 folders.
968,818,688 bytes in 128 files.
60,260,352 bytes available on disk.
16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
63,983 total allocation units on disk.
3,678 allocation units available on disk.
F:\>
Now If I reformat the device and boot up a 2.6.11 or earlier kernel and ONLY
use those kernels with the iRiver, it works flawlessly again. I can write
thousands of times with no problems what so ever. I now have to dual boot
kernels all the time.
I cant verify if 2.6.12 worked because 2.6.12 broke adaptec drivers and I have
all SCSI in my system.
2.6.13 didnt work.
If I boot back to my current 2.6.14 setup and try to write, it gets all cross
linked again.
What kind of information would be needed to help get this fixed! I am willing
to do anything to get this one last issue with my system fixed.
Thanks in advance
Johnny O
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