Sandisk Sansa Fuze does not mount properly in MSC mode on Lucid/10.04
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
| 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.
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Ryan (ryan-farmer-personal-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| James P. Carter (jpcarter) wrote | #2 |
| affects: | ubuntu → gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
| tags: | added: gnome-disk-utility |
| Jacob Peddicord (jpeddicord) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Jacob Peddicord (jpeddicord) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
| Jacob Peddicord (jpeddicord) wrote | #6 |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #7 |
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?