On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20:51, Derek Jennings wrote:
> I just got my daughter an MP3 player. It is an MPeye 5 GB model,
> and very nice it is too. Plays Ogg, No DRM, No host software.
> (Interesting how today we rate a product by the features it lacks
> :-)
>
> When I plug it into my USB2 port it is recognised perfectly and
> comes up as /mnt/removable and everything works 'out of the box'
>
> The only problem I have is that when I delete a file on the
> mp3player it does not really get deleted unless I perform a
> 'sync'
> Now I know this, but I cannot count on my daughter remembering to
> do it, so I would like to add the 'sync' option to the fstab
> entry that is automatically created when I plug the player in.
>
> Trouble is this new 'hal' system is confusing and I do not know
> where the default configuration for usb-storage is kept.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
Derek, I don't know if this is relevant to your problem, but it
touches an old complaint of mine : fstab being "volatile", meaning
one can't edit it reliably. My MP3 player doesn't need a sync
however. I can delete files OK, but I had plenty of troubles with
other USB devices, like scanners, cameras and external hard disks.
As far as I remember I solved some of those problems with
"gnome-volume-manager" and HAL.
If you don't have it under system --> Configuration --> Hardware -->
Removable Storage, just : urpmi gnome-volume-manager.
HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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