Comment 9 for bug 236422

I have a sansa e260 and I am running Ubuntu 8.10.
The sansa must be switch to USB mode MSC.

After connecting the sansa 2 USB devices appear in nautilus but nothing more.

So we have to make the system that it is mounting the device correctly.

Make a new directory:

<code>sudo mkdir /media/sansa</code>

Check which devices are used by the sansa with:

<code>sudo fdisk -l</code>

Now we have to edit the file /etc/fstab
<code>sudo gedit /etc/fstab&amp;</code>

And put the following line at the end of the file, assuming that the first drive of the sansa was found at /dev/sdf1 with the fdisk -l command:

<code>/dev/sdf1 /media/sansa vfat rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0</code>

After editing the file /etc/fstab you have to reboot because this is a static table.

You can also try it by hand with
<code>sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/sansa</code>

If you want to mount it as normal user use the tool pmount. Normally this is not installed on the machines.
<code>pmount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /media/sansa</code>

Normally that's it, now the sansa icon should appear on the desktop after connecting the device.
Don't forget to unmount the device before disconnecting.

Unfortunately I experienced some problems that it looked that the sansa was just mounted as read-only.
The reason for that was that some files were corrupted. So I connected the sansa to a Windows system and issued the command:

<code>chkdsk /F e:</code>

Now it worked fine on Ubuntu as well.