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You don't have to reformat the disc, just enter the drive correctly as Superfloppy in fstab:

/dev/sdd /mnt/himd vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0

My NH700 reports as /dev/sdd , it could be different depending on the number of other USB-drives connected, KDE checks on startup for this entry and creates an icon on the desktop, which allows for easy mounting.

Replace /mnt/himd with the directory, where you want to mount the drive.

For easy unmounting, add an icon, containing this line:

umount -l /dev/sdd

Of course, replace /dev/sdd with the device name, that your system reports.

Oh, and if you wonder, why I haven't added a partition number to the device name, it is simple: Minidiscs don't have a partition table. They are superfloppies...

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thx jadeclaw! that will make my life a lot easier. i was going to probably just try to mount it without mounting it as a super floppy in fstab, even though when i mounted it last night i went th rough that whole process. i think i started to block it out and forget it ever happened, it was so painful....

haha, well at least i learned how to use fdisk last night.

superfloppies! haha, i was wondering how other people were using them as minidisc music players and linux usb drives.

and latexxx.... shame on you. why do you think we're on linux? cuz we want it done the easy way! no, haha. not for me, at least. i was so mad that suse 9 (unlike 7, idk about 8) auto mounted my floppy and cd drives. it ruined all my fun.

seriously though, i've heard some stuff about ubuntu. i have to try it. that and debian and xandros and gentoo. someone told me i should try gentoo... it sounds painful.

i tried mandrake and i hated it. maybe when i get my hands on a crappy computer to make a web server i'll put a different version of linux on it than just suse.

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I tried SuSE. And I hated it. 7.0 was buggy, 8.2 was buggy as well.

I hope, that after GPL-ing YAST, the bugs will finally take a hike...

I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and it runs without any problems here.

Normally it finds the HiMD by itself, but diskdrake stumbles over the missing partition table.

And since the automounter isn't reliably unmounting disks, I mount and unmount my disks manually.

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  • 1 month later...

hi

i am thinking of buying an sony MZ-NH600D. but i have one big question:

can i, if i have mounted the player, simply copy mp3z on the player AND of course can the player play the music?

what i want to say: is it possible to use the player completly WITHOUT windows?

(otherwise i can not use it)

plz reply.

sid

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hi

i am thinking of buying an sony MZ-NH600D. but i have one big question:

can i, if i have mounted the player,  simply copy mp3z on the player AND of course can the player play the music?

what i want to say: is it possible to use the player completly WITHOUT windows?

(otherwise i can not use it)

plz reply.

sid

No.

The audio functions of HiMD require the use of SonicStage, which is Windows-only. To my knowledge, users who have tried it with emulators have met limited success at best.

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