[solved] how to mount Archos 30c Vision? [solved]

[mutzsow]

Hi,

I bought myself the Archos 30c Vision today and it's the only USB device that didn't mount automatic and I simply don't know what to do to mount it. (or where)

The specifications from archos told me that I need the usb mass storage package to communicate with the media player. But I don't find a package like this.
I only found with the search (archos usb) a tool named rockbox but I guess this is a new kind of firmware for the player but I'm fine with the installed firmware and to install rockbox I guess I also need to mount it first.

Can anyone tell me what to do? Just the mounting not a specific instruction for rockbox.

Thanks in advance
mutzsow

[menotu]

If not already done so, could try enabling  Automatic Mounting of Removable Media from

Configure Your Desktop >> Hardware >> Removable Devices

and restart your desktop

[kjpetrie]

According to the instruction quoted below, it can't be used as a USB drive while it's playing, or played while it's mounted. You did press stop, I take it?

PROBLEM: I would like to charge my device with the PC but listen to it at the same time.
SOLUTION: By ‘removing safely’ the device (on your PC: safe removal icon, in the system tray, next to the
clock), but not unplugging the USB cable, you can use your ARCHOS product while it charges. This charge and
listen function is not possible with Windows Vista® and Windows® 7 computers.

[muungwana]

unplug it, plug it back in, wait for 4 seconds and then open the terminal, run the following command and post its output

dmesg | tail -n 50

[mutzsow]

Hi again,

thank you all for your answers.

@menotu: Yes, automount is activated. But a good and simple guess thanks
@kjpetrie: I didn't try to play something, I tried to mount it and therefore I just plugged it and waited, 'cause every USB Device I connected responded with PCLOS in some useful way, but thanks this is good to know and your right Windows7 can't charge and play at the same time. Thank god I have neighbors with proprietary operating systems in the same network
@muungwana: It seems that PCLOS found something here is the quote:
<dmesg | tail -n 50
<ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
<NET: Registered protocol family 17
<martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.2.2, on dev eth0
<ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:13:f7:10:57:31:08:00
<eth0: no IPv6 routers present
<usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
<agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
<agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
<nvidia 0000:02:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
<NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
<NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
<NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
<NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
<NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
<usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
<usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=071b, idProduct=3203
<usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
<usb 1-4: Product: ARCHOS 
<usb 1-4: Manufacturer: ARCHOS 
<usb 1-4: SerialNumber: USBV1.00
<Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
<usb-storage 1-4:1.0: Quirks match for vid 071b pid 3203: 80600
<scsi2 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
<usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
<USB Mass Storage support registered.
<usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
<scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Archos   USBDISK  User    1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
<sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
<sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 15990784 512-byte logical blocks: (8.18 GB/7.62 GiB)
<sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming Write Enabled
<usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
<usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/all, error -110
<usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
<usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error -110
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error -110
<usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error -110
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/8, error -110
<usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3
<sd 2:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
<sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
<sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
<sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
<sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
<usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110

The option "advanced USB support" in the mainboard BIOS is and was enabled.

Sorry it took so long to answer...I have a lot of work and a new girlfriend ;P
Thanks alot
mutzsow

[muungwana]

<usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110

The above line says why its not working as expected. there is something wrong with it and something somewhere errors out with an error number of "-110".

can you check if everything is plugged in correctly?
can you use a different usb port?
can you try to use it with another computer to see if it works there?

[mutzsow]

Hi again,

the media player is working, I copied music via the network with a Windows 7 machine from my neighbors to it.
I guess everything is plugged right 'cause it charges when I plug it in my PCLOS E17 machine and I tried every USB port on that computer.
Maybe it's because this is a really old machine with only 1.2 GHz 1 GB DDR RAM and so on...but mhhh why is everything else via an USB connection working? No this isn't the problem I guess.

In the next few days my new mainboard for my quadcore will be delivered and on this machine is a PCLOS with KDE installed, maybe E17 is the Problem. I cannot check rightnow 'cause my old motherboard is broke.

UPDATE: I tried to open the PCLOS Control Center while the player was connected and it took at least 2 minutes to start (normal is about 5 seconds) and it wasn't unable to open the hardware detection but it detects it within seconds when I was unplugging the archos...

Thank you
mutzsow

[muungwana]

Desktop Environments do not deal with hardware. Hardware components are managed by the kernel and its usually the kernel or one of its components fault when things dont work.

You can try updating to the latest kernel you can find in the repository and see if the problem is still there.

[mutzsow]

Thanks a lot...the new kernel (3.2.18) solved the problem, now I can access my media player with Linux

I really didn't thought of that, ARghl...so simple AGAIN!

Thank you
mutzsow