rszasz Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Ok, so I love the format, and store all sorts of data on mine as well as the music. Unfortunatly my OS of choice as a network admin is OpenBSD which doesnt seem to play happily with the way Hi-MD represents itself as a umass device. Have any of you managed to figure out the drive geometry that might make the hi-md work? It would realy rock to have hi-md working on all the umass aware OSs that I know. Also on the drive geometry issue, have any of you tried to use a non Sony cardreader->usbdrive copier? This would also be quite nice, being able to dump photos to MD where (since I carry them with me in the feild) I wouldnt have to worry about anything damaging them. Once again a plus for the only format that is cheap, rugged and heat resistant.Thanks in advance for your time,Robert Szasz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Not totally familiar with BSD, but all I can think of is an emulator under BSD that makes it think it's windoze, and SS in the emulator.Good luck,Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rszasz Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 um, i dont want to transfer tracks, just files. I am looking for a way to mount the fat16 partition presented on the minidisc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disso Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Havn't tried it on BSD but should be same for most linux distros, ive mounted it on RH a few times:mkdir mount_pt # eg /mnt/hi-mdmount -t vfat /dev/sda mount_ptcd mount_ptThe usb drive may come up as a different device so if that doesnt work try /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc...Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Plugging the device in doesn't create a sd* entry in /dev? On FreeBSD all my HiMD units show up as da* devices in which case a simple mount_msdos /dev/da0a /mnt Just Works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rszasz Posted May 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 i guess it is a quirk of the obsd msdos mounting then.. it does create the sd0 device. but the msdos mount command fails, and dd seems to make four copies of each sector on read. Could you be so kind as to post the output of disklabel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 This is on FreeBSD 6 with a fresh 1GB disc:umass0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entryumass0: detachedumass0: Sony Hi-MD, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0da0: <SONY Hi-MD WALKMAN 1000> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfersda0: 964MB (494023 2048 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 241C)bsdlabel errors with no valid label found, but mount_msdosfs does mount the raw device /dev/da0Weird. I'll see what happens if I format the disc with Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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