I recently bought a mp3/video SONY NWZ walkman (one of B172F or B173F). I plugged in the USB into the computer but it was not detected. It does not appear on the desktop and cannot be seen in a shell either.
It looks like a general issue under Linux at the moment. From ubuntu forum, one suggestion is to seqrch for the label in the /dev directory:
ls /dev/disk/by-label -lah |
to figure out the device name. However, the SONY device was not found; only hard disk related:
DellUtility _Fedora-17-x86_6 OS RECOVERY |
However, I could find it in the by-id
ls /dev/disk/by-id/ |
Here is the name as it appear on my computer (amongst others):
usb-SONY_WALKMAN_1042D501543287-0:0 |
From there, you can mount the USB device as follows (note the slash before :0):
sudo mkdir /media/Walkman sudo mount /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SONY_WALKMAN_1042D501543287-0\:0 /media/Walkman |
Hi,
It had worked last time when I followed this post. But now when I try to do the same i.e.
sudo mount /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SONY_WALKMAN_1042D8C6585658-0\:0 /media/walkman
I get this error:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Need help.
Never mind. I figured it out.
I used :
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SONY_WALKMAN_1042D8C6585658-0\:0 /media/walkman
and now I could mount it.
Thanks.