Sun, 16 Feb 2003

New toy

So I finally got my Nex IIe [ an inexpensive, leight mp3 player that uses compact flash cards, manufactured by Frontier Labs and sold mostly on Ebay and by web discounters ] a few days ago, having looked at the thing for way too long. First impressions: very, very nice. The two AA batteries weigh more than the rest of the thing. Installation was a breeze -- I was lazy and tried it first on Windows where the thing was immediately recognised. Getting files onto it was just a matter of drag and drop.

Almost as easy under Linux once the right modules are loaded. I had already built them months ago. The following script mount_flash does the trick for me:

#!/bin/sh
#
# edd 13 Feb 2003
# using info from  http://vic.dyndns.org/linux-UsbMassStorage/
# and http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux 
# a matching entry is in /etc/fstab
# also use 'sg_scan -i' and 'sg_map' so that all is well before mounting

# load modules
modprobe sd_mod 
modprobe sg 
modprobe usb-storage
mount /mnt/flash

echo "Compact Flash storage mounted at /mnt/flash"
exit 0

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