Tools to work with a Sansa

[Richard England]

Steve Snyder wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:09:55 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> I just got a Sansa 4Gb Connect MP3.  This is audio and video.
>>
>> I am running FC10 and Gnome on an Asus 701.
>>
>> I plug the sansa in with its special USB cable and I show a USB
>> device but it is not accessable.
>>     
>
> The Sansa devices can be configured in 2 USB modes.  By default they 
> are configured such that they appear to be a media device to MS 
> Windows.  You want the other mode, it which the Sansa appears to be a 
> storage device.  That's configured in the Sansa's Settings section.
>
>   
>> I have tried to add the Disk Mounter tool to the panel, but when I
>> click on add, nothing happens.
>>
>> So perhaps multiple things are going wrong here.
>>
>> But what tool would I use to move music, pics, and videos to the
>> Sansa?
>>     
>
> When I plug in my Sansa, I am informed (on my KDE desktop) that a new 
> device has been plugged in.  I opt to mount that device.  Then it is a 
> simple matter to copy files to /media/SANSA_CLIP/PODCASTS/ (or 
> whatever).  When the Sansa is disconnected it automatically re-indexes 
> the files stored on it.  Then they are available via the on-screen menu 
> selection.
>
> FYI, the Sansa firmware is updated the same way: just copy the firmware 
> file to the root of the device's filesystem.  No need for Sandisk's 
> Win32 application.
>
>   
Steve,
Where do you find the firmware updates that are _not_ in the form or a 
*.exe file?

Or is there some way to break the components out of the *.exe?

Thanks,
~~R