<div>try formatting the device under Linux as a VFAT FS. If you use fdisk (and be *very* careful!!) choose the LBA version of VFAT. I am not by my Linux Box, so I cannot check the exact settings for you - just type the help option to get the list of available FSs.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">THUFIR HAWAT</b> <<a href="mailto:hawat.thufir@gmail.com">hawat.thufir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm running FC4 and am trying to read and write to a flash based USB<br>mp3 player, an RCA Lyra.<br><br>It mounts as:
<br>Thomson Lyra_MPCF2261_US:RCA_LYRA<br><br>in gnome nautilus when I plug the USB cable into the player. I then<br>right-click on the folder, mount and open. There are many songs<br>loaded onto it, but I'm not seeing them. I'm able to copy/paste/move
<br>files onto the mp3 player but am only seeing those files written under<br>linux. Existing mp3 files, put there by windows, are invisible.<br><br>The model: RD1028A (RCA Lyra)<br><br>I found, on google:<br><br>"X-Message-Number-for-archive: 201430
<br>Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:52:57 -0400<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:te1og0trh6cubmpnqjp2n056gimlm49q1q@4ax.com">te1og0trh6cubmpnqjp2n056gimlm49q1q@4ax.com</a>><br>Subject: [SLE] Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Mount RCA Lyra MP3 Player - Linux Newbie
<br><br><br>On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:46:38 -0700, you wrote:<br><br>>Has anyone found a way to mount a "RCA Lyra 128M" MP3 player?<br>><br>>I have searched Google many times and nothing listed seems to work
<br>for me. And I'm not quite sure what format it may be in.<br>><br>>FYI: SUSE 8.2<br>><br>>Thanks in advance,<br>>--jj<br><br>Sorry, but the Lyra series is braindamaged. I own the older version,<br>which could be mounted but the mp3 files had to be preprocessed by a
<br>licensed version of some windows program or other - can't think of it<br>right now. The newer version, AFAIK, took it an additional step - it<br>won't even mount as a normal USB device - you're stuck running the<br>software it came with.
<br><br>Mike- "<br><br>which is from the suse mailing list. At one point I *was* able to<br>view the contents of the player but haven't been able to recreate<br>that. So long as the player has free space I'm able to write to it,
<br>and see those files, but don't see the pre-existing mp3 files. I'm<br>using USB 1.1, not 2.0, if that matters.<br><br><br>-Thufir<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com
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