Treo 15 Digital Music Jukebox from eDigital?

[janmartin3]

Hi!

I have a Treo 15 Digital Music Jukebox from eDigital.

Google found nothing on linux.

Any chance?
Its connected by USB and has its own drive letter under Windos 98 SE.


Thanks,
JanMartin

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Have you checked to see if linux can treat it as a usb hd device?

If you had the device connected via usb when you booted, then you should be able to check dmesg to see if it was properly deteced and added.

Do this by typing the following command from a shell.

"dmesg |less" Just hit the space bar to scroll down.

Hopefully you will see an entry similar to this one (from my dmesg)

scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 250880 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)

There is also a message there that tells me that this device can now be loacated at sda1. This means /dev/sda1.

If you see that the device was detected, then you can do what I recently did in the case of a usb flash drive.

I opened up /etc/fstab in a text editor (You must be root).

I then added the following line

/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash_card vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0

Of course before I could get it to work I had to cd into /mnt and create the flash_card direcotry. You can name the directory whatever you want just makd sure that you have the same name specified in your fstab.

Once you do this you shoud be able mount the drive like this: mount /mnt/name_of_drive

Post back if you need more help

[janmartin3]

Hi,
it is working very well.

Here a few relevant lines from dmesg:

USB Mass Storage device found at 3
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: eDigital Model: Storage Device Rev: 0001
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 29498112 512-byte hdwr sectors (15103 MB)
sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured

Right now I am listening to mp3 files stored in the Treo 15 using xmms.
Even drag and drop whole folders from the Treo 15 to the xmms Playlist Editor does work.

What I did to make it happen:
Not all might be relevant, I am a Knoppix AND Linux beginner

Upgrade Treo 15 Firmware
(There is only one uprade available at http://www.edig.com/product-support/...t-support.html, and it only can be done using Windows.)

Prepare Knoppix for HDD:
(This can be irrelevant.
I am running Knoppix from HDD not CD, but it is NOT installed, I just copied the Knoppix file to a HDD partition.)

(Existiing untouched prtition running Windows 98.)
Make a new 702 MB primary patition, FAT 32
Make a new 70 MB primary patition FAT 32
Make a new 50 MB primary patition, linux swap (Way to small, but no more space left.)

Copy Knoppix file from Knoppix folder at Knoppix CD to 702 MB patition.
Run mkfloppy.bat at Knoppix folder at CD to create Knoppix start floppy.

Remove Knoppix CD, end Windows 98,

Connect Treo 15:
plug in power cord
press and hold button: (dubble arrow down)
plug in USB cable

Treo 15 display shows message:

Ready
HDD Connect

Restart PC.

Treo 15 is recognised and added as icon to Knoppix Desktop.

Klick it to mount and open in Konqueror.

Click a mp3 file to start xmms.
Done.

Sounds simple, but needed a whole day.

By the way:
My hardware is a Twinhead Slimnote VXe ( P88TE ) Notebook with a
366 Mhz Celeron CPU and 4 GB HDD.

Have fun,
JanMartin

email: janmartin3 at lycos.com

P.S.: I am German, excuse my english.

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Glad to hear it's all working.