Sandisk Sansa Fuze does not mount properly in MSC mode on Lucid/10.04
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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gvfs (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On the Ubuntu 10.04 development branch, plugging in my Sandisk Sansa Fuze in MSC mode results in an incorrect/partial mount.
What I expected:
Plug in Sansa, icon appears on my desktop and possibly a dialog opens asking me what to do. Drag and drop of files onto the device as a generic Mass Storage Class Device works properly.
What I got instead:
Plug in Sansa, no desktop icon, Rhythmbox (or any media player) doesn't see it, no dialog asking me what to do. Under Places/Computer, Nautilus will show "Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4GB" but won't let me browse or do anything with it.
If I plug in my Micro SD card, then it mounts as "Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4GB:16GB" and I can browse the Micro SD part only.
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Setting the device to MTP works, but then it becomes a dumb 18.6 GB blob where I can't drag and drop or browse it and I have no control as to where files go. Yay Microsoft! Bonus: I can't see anything I added in MSC mode.
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After further investigation, I found that if I format the Sansa itself as FAT32 while plugged in as MSC under Windows XP, Ubuntu recognizes and mounts it as a file system. If I format the device as FAT32 under Linux, Ubuntu does not mount or recognize it.
This leads me to believe that there could be a bug in the Sansa which is making it not like a FAT32 file system on its internal storage as created by Linux? Is there someone out there that can possibly figure out why?